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has caused the Debian Bug report #649858,
regarding buggy magic: mistakes Z-machine binaries
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Package: file
Version: 5.04-5
Severity: normal
Just now I noticed that the file(1) command in Debian Squeeze works
inconsistently on Z-machine binaries. It seems to identify V4 and V8
files correctly, but chokes on other versions. Most V5 files are
reported as Hitachi SH big-endian COFF objects and executables. Some
V5s are reported simply as "data". A V3 version of Hitchiker's Guide is
reported as a DBase 3 data file. Reliable entries for Z-machine
binaries have been in the upstream since at least as far back as late
2002, which is when I submitted them to Christos Zoulas. What's going
on here?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
APT prefers proposed-updates
APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages file depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libmagic1 5.04-5 File type determination library us
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
file recommends no packages.
file suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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file(1) has since been upgraded to contain the updated Z-machine magic.
It's not perfect. I'll be working on that upstream.
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