Control: tags 940222 -moreinfo +confirmed Control: severity 940222 important
Paolo Benvenuto wrote...
> I have an .avi file on a debian server. The file command reports a wrong
> result:
>
> $ file -i myfile.avi
> myfile.avi: image/x-tga; charset=binary
>
> I get the same mime type with python3 and magic.from_file().
>
> However, the same file on my ubuntu pc (rsynced) is correctly reported as a
> video:
>
> $ file -i myfile.avi
> myfile.avi: video/mpeg; charset=binary
With the help of the reproducer: This is a regression introduced[1]
upstream between 5.32 and 5.33, and fixed[2] between 5.36 and 5.37.
Mapping to distributions, this exists in Debian 10 ("buster") and
Ubutunu (not checked) 19.04 and 19.10.
About Debian 10, this warrants a fix via a point release. Scheduled.
> Weirdly , nautilus sees it correctly as a video (doesn't it use the same
> libmagic1 library?).
Possibly nautilus uses
| shared-mime-info - FreeDesktop.org shared MIME database and spec
which - if memory serves me right - is a different implementation.
Christoph
[1] FILE5_32-72-g8e6127de
[2] FILE5_36-4-gd75e8878
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