This was fixed in version 5.01-1 in Debian; I've confirmed that Karmic no longer suffers from this bug.
file (5.01-1) unstable; urgency=low * Adding patch from Adam Buchbinder <[email protected]> to fix false matches against Z-machine pattern (Closes: #499748). * Adding patch from Adam Buchbinder <[email protected]> to improve XWD magic in order to not give false results on mp3 files (Closes: #511764). * Adding patch from Adam Buchbinder <[email protected]> to fix unescaped spaces in erlang magic (Closes: #514056). * Updating UUID patches to cope with leading zeroes, thanks to Bjorn Mork <[email protected]> (Closes: #515019). * Updating section for python-magic-dbg. * Adding patch from Adam Buchbinder <[email protected]> to fix a spacing error in the manpage (Closes: #515761). * Adding patch from Adam Buchbinder <[email protected]> to updated utf-8 big-endian magic (Closes: #513526). * Adding patch from Adam Buchbinder <[email protected]> to add new magic for git packs and indexes (Closes: #509942). * Adding patch from Adam Buchbinder <[email protected]> to update magic for spectrum tap files (Closes: #501589). * Merging upstream version 5.01. * Removing magic-update-erlang.patch, went upstream. * Rediffing magic-add-qdbm.patch. * Rediffing magic-add-tokyocabinet.patch. * Manually renaming magic directory in rules to correct name. * Updating file-mgc.patch for file 5, produces raw magics again now (Closes: #522433). -- Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> Sun, 03 May 2009 11:02:00 +0200 ** Changed in: file (Ubuntu Hardy) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: file (Ubuntu Hardy) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: file (Ubuntu Hardy) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson) ** Changed in: file (Ubuntu Intrepid) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: file (Ubuntu Intrepid) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: file (Ubuntu Intrepid) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson) ** Changed in: file (Ubuntu Jaunty) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: file (Ubuntu Jaunty) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: file (Ubuntu Jaunty) Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson) ** Changed in: file (Ubuntu Karmic) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- file incorrectly labeled as Erlang JAM file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248619 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
