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Package: file
Version: 5.04-5
Severity: normal
As far as I can tell, the new Debian release has removed the magic number
list that used to be called /usr/share/file/magic[1]. magic.mgc is all that's
left, and it's not human-readable.
It was nice to be able to get a judgement from file(1) and then find the
corresponding entry in the magic list and peek at the neighboring entries and
comments to learn more about the format. Now that's not possible.
/usr/share/file/magic is an empty directory, and I don't know why.
[1] and before that, used to be called /usr/share/misc/file/magic[2]
[2] and before bureaucratic nonsense took over, was called /etc/magic
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.37+
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libmagic1 depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
libmagic1 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages libmagic1 suggests:
ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic"
Versions of packages file depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
-- no debconf information
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that was an upstream change do deprecate non-compiled magics (which I
support) and there's nothing we can do here about it.
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