Bernhard R. Link wrote: >> [0] they *could* change format suddenly, only the library and its >> bindings are safe. > > And where is this documented? (It has a documentation for the format, so > I guess if that was supposed to be "writing" only, that was a canonical > place to state it).
what do you mean, documentation about the format, documentation about the recent change, or documentation about to not modify /usr/share/file/magic* directly? > Thanks for the warning and the compaitibility wrapper. But please also > advertise that a bit wider. Just a mail to debian-devel is hardly enough > when breaking an advertised interface. err, this is a first attention mail approximately 4 to 6 month before lenny release.. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]