Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar>, David Frey <dfrey@debian.org>:
Bug#20904; Package file, magicfilter.   debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgNicolás Lichtmaier David Frey  Subject: Bug#20904: file, magicfilter: duplicate information - magic numbers Reply-To: Yann Dirson , 20904@bugs.debian.org Resent-From: Yann Dirson Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: Nicolás Lichtmaier , David Frey Resent-Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 13:03:04 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj@debian.org X-Debian-PR-Message: report 20904 X-Debian-PR-Package: file, magicfilter X-Debian-PR-Keywords: X-Loop: owner@bugs.debian.org Received: via spool by bugs@bugs.debian.org id=B.89212677628559 (code B ref -1); Thu, 09 Apr 1998 13:03:04 GMT Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:00:56 +0200 Message-Id: <199804091300.PAA14541@ppp37.a2points.com> From: Yann Dirson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Debian bug-system submission X-Mailer: VM 6.42 under Emacs 19.34.1 Package: file, magicfilter Version: 3.24-4, 1.2-20 Severity: wishlist Both file and magicfilter use a magic number DB to identify file formats. This leads to duplicate information - the DB's can't be expected to be in sync all of the time. Further more, both text DB formats are limitted to each one's field of application. It would be great to have a general-purpose magic-number-handling library, with a generic DB that would associate magics to cannonical ID's, and maybe other recognizable infos, like file can identify. "file" would be able to output its info in whatever language the user wishes, and "magicfilter" would have the same knowledge base as "file" does. Maybe the work I did for the console tools (recently uploaded into slink as package utils/console-tools) could be used as a base for this, although it is not generic enough as such: magic definitions are hardcoded in a struct - this can be easily fixed by using an external DB; there are only basic informations that allow to recognize a file with a magic+mask starting at offset 0 - the data structure have to be extended / made more generic). If your're interested in this idea, you will find the relevant code in console-tools' source package, in files lib/findfile*.c. -- Yann Dirson | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.a2points.com/homepage/3475232 | Check   Acknowledgement sent to Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar>, David Frey <dfrey@debian.org>.   -t  From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Ian Jackson) To: Yann Dirson Subject: Bug#20904: Acknowledgement (file, magicfilter: duplicate information - magic numbers) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <199804091300.PAA14541@ppp37.a2points.com> References: <199804091300.PAA14541@ppp37.a2points.com> X-Debian-PR-Message: ack 20904 Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): Nicolás Lichtmaier David Frey If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to 20904@bugs.debian.org (and *not* to bugs@bugs.debian.org). Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (administrator, Debian bugs database)   Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 9 Apr 1998 12:59:36 +0000 Received: (qmail 28548 invoked from network); 9 Apr 1998 12:59:20 -0000 Received: from ppp-36.a2points.com (HELO ppp37.a2points.com) (root@195.10.6.36) by debian.novare.net with SMTP; 9 Apr 1998 12:59:20 -0000 Received: (from dwitch@localhost) by ppp37.a2points.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) id PAA14541; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:00:56 +0200 Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:00:56 +0200 Message-Id: <199804091300.PAA14541@ppp37.a2points.com> From: Yann Dirson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Debian bug-system submission Subject: file, magicfilter: duplicate information - magic numbers X-Mailer: VM 6.42 under Emacs 19.34.1 Package: file, magicfilter Version: 3.24-4, 1.2-20 Severity: wishlist Both file and magicfilter use a magic number DB to identify file formats. This leads to duplicate information - the DB's can't be expected to be in sync all of the time. Further more, both text DB formats are limitted to each one's field of application. It would be great to have a general-purpose magic-number-handling library, with a generic DB that would associate magics to cannonical ID's, and maybe other recognizable infos, like file can identify. "file" would be able to output its info in whatever language the user wishes, and "magicfilter" would have the same knowledge base as "file" does. Maybe the work I did for the console tools (recently uploaded into slink as package utils/console-tools) could be used as a base for this, although it is not generic enough as such: magic definitions are hardcoded in a struct - this can be easily fixed by using an external DB; there are only basic informations that allow to recognize a file with a magic+mask starting at offset 0 - the data structure have to be extended / made more generic). If your're interested in this idea, you will find the relevant code in console-tools' source package, in files lib/findfile*.c. -- Yann Dirson | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.a2points.com/homepage/3475232 | Check   Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar>, David Frey <dfrey@debian.org>:
Bug#20904; Package file, magicfilter.   debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgNicolás Lichtmaier David Frey  Subject: Bug#20904: file, magicfilter: duplicate information - magic numbers Reply-To: David Frey , 20904@bugs.debian.org Resent-From: David Frey Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: Nicolás Lichtmaier , David Frey Resent-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:48:02 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj@debian.org X-Debian-PR-Message: report 20904 X-Debian-PR-Package: file, magicfilter X-Debian-PR-Keywords: X-Loop: owner@bugs.debian.org Received: via spool by 20904-bugs@bugs.debian.org id=B20904.8922447466797 (code B ref 20904); Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:48:02 GMT X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Yann Dirson , 20904@bugs.debian.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Apr 1998 15:00:56 +0200." <199804091300.PAA14541@ppp37.a2points.com> Mail-Copies-To: never X-No-Junk-Mail: Do not send me junk mail under any circumstances Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:51:26 +0200 From: David Frey Message-Id: On Thu, 09 Apr 1998 15:00:56 +0200 Yann Dirson wrote: > If your're interested in this idea, you will find the relevant code in > console-tools' source package, in files lib/findfile*.c. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll take a look at it. David -- David Frey (B98D36A9) = 51F35923114FC864 7D05FF173C61EFDE Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer   Acknowledgement sent to David Frey <david@eos.lugs.ch>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar>, David Frey <dfrey@debian.org>.   -t  From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Ian Jackson) To: David Frey Subject: Bug#20904: Info received (was Bug#20904: file, magicfilter: duplicate information - magic numbers ) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Debian-PR-Message: ack-info-maintonly 20904 Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developer(s) and to the developers' mailing list to accompany the original report. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): Nicolás Lichtmaier David Frey If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please send it to 20904@bugs.debian.org, as before. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (administrator, Debian bugs database)   Received: (at 20904) by bugs.debian.org; 10 Apr 1998 21:45:46 +0000 Received: (qmail 6794 invoked from network); 10 Apr 1998 21:45:45 -0000 Received: from obastrlx.etter.ch (193.192.246.1) by debian.novare.net with SMTP; 10 Apr 1998 21:45:45 -0000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by obastrlx.etter.ch (8.8.8/8.8.6-AS) with UUCP id XAA21313 for 20904@bugs.debian.org; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:29:31 +0200 Received: from eos.lugs.ch [127.0.0.1] (david) by eos.lugs.ch with esmtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0yNjpf-00012s-00 (Debian); Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:51:27 +0200 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Yann Dirson , 20904@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#20904: file, magicfilter: duplicate information - magic numbers In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Apr 1998 15:00:56 +0200." <199804091300.PAA14541@ppp37.a2points.com> Mail-Copies-To: never X-No-Junk-Mail: Do not send me junk mail under any circumstances Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 21:51:26 +0200 From: David Frey Message-Id: On Thu, 09 Apr 1998 15:00:56 +0200 Yann Dirson wrote: > If your're interested in this idea, you will find the relevant code in > console-tools' source package, in files lib/findfile*.c. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll take a look at it. David -- David Frey (B98D36A9) = 51F35923114FC864 7D05FF173C61EFDE Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer   Bug closed, send any further explanations to Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> Request was from Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org.   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Received: (at control) by bugs.debian.org; 19 Oct 2000 22:33:13 +0000 From ydirson@altern.org Thu Oct 19 17:33:13 2000 Return-path: Received: from smtp-rt-3.wanadoo.fr (apicra.wanadoo.fr) [::ffff:193.252.19.155] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 13mOFN-0000xv-00; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:33:13 -0500 Received: from villosa.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.122) by apicra.wanadoo.fr; 20 Oct 2000 00:33:11 +0200 Received: from bylbo.nowhere.earth (213.56.234.114) by villosa.wanadoo.fr; 20 Oct 2000 00:32:55 +0200 Received: from dwitch by bylbo.nowhere.earth with local (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) id 13mONr-0007R9-00 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 00:41:59 +0200 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 00:41:59 +0200 From: Yann Dirson To: control@bugs.debian.org Subject: Fix my email addresses Message-ID: <20001020004159.A28555@bylbo.nowhere.earth> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: Yann Dirson Delivered-To: control@bugs.debian.org close 12375 reopen 12375 ! 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You have taken responsibility.   -t  MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.420 (Entity 5.420) X-Loop: owner@bugs.debian.org From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) To: Reuben Thomas Subject: Bug#20904: marked as done (file, magicfilter: duplicate information - magic numbers) Message-ID: References: <199804091300.PAA14541@ppp37.a2points.com> X-Debian-PR-Message: closed 20904 X-Debian-PR-Package: file, magicfilter Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_1203354724-25402-0" This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1203354724-25402-0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Your message dated Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:09:23 +0000 (GMT) with message-id and subject line Your wish is granted: libmagic exists has caused the Debian Bug report #20904, regarding file, magicfilter: duplicate information - magic numbers to be marked as done. 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Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org immediately.) --=20 20904: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D20904 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems ------------=_1203354724-25402-0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 9 Apr 1998 12:59:36 +0000 Received: (qmail 28548 invoked from network); 9 Apr 1998 12:59:20 -0000 Received: from ppp-36.a2points.com (HELO ppp37.a2points.com) (root@195.10.6.36) by debian.novare.net with SMTP; 9 Apr 1998 12:59:20 -0000 Received: (from dwitch@localhost) by ppp37.a2points.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) id PAA14541; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:00:56 +0200 Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:00:56 +0200 Message-Id: <199804091300.PAA14541@ppp37.a2points.com> From: Yann Dirson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Debian bug-system submission Subject: file, magicfilter: duplicate information - magic numbers X-Mailer: VM 6.42 under Emacs 19.34.1 Package: file, magicfilter Version: 3.24-4, 1.2-20 Severity: wishlist Both file and magicfilter use a magic number DB to identify file formats. This leads to duplicate information - the DB's can't be expected to be in sync all of the time. Further more, both text DB formats are limitted to each one's field of application. It would be great to have a general-purpose magic-number-handling library, with a generic DB that would associate magics to cannonical ID's, and maybe other recognizable infos, like file can identify. "file" would be able to output its info in whatever language the user wishes, and "magicfilter" would have the same knowledge base as "file" does. Maybe the work I did for the console tools (recently uploaded into slink as package utils/console-tools) could be used as a base for this, although it is not generic enough as such: magic definitions are hardcoded in a struct - this can be easily fixed by using an external DB; there are only basic informations that allow to recognize a file with a magic+mask starting at offset 0 - the data structure have to be extended / made more generic). If your're interested in this idea, you will find the relevant code in console-tools' source package, in files lib/findfile*.c. -- Yann Dirson | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.a2points.com/homepage/3475232 | Check ------------=_1203354724-25402-0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: (at 20904-done) by bugs.debian.org; 18 Feb 2008 17:09:32 +0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (2006-07-26) on rietz.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,YOUTHERE autolearn=no version=3.1.4-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 Return-path: Received: from pelican.sc3d.org ([216.184.201.86]) by rietz.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JR9Ui-0005VI-0E for 20904-done@bugs.debian.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:09:32 +0000 DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; t=1203354566; x=1203959366; s=key1024; d=sc3d.org; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns; h=From:Subject:Date:Message-ID:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=krlfWWGZCKDzomDp2b11xj6hBZfrUWzo7Kg7sMNtV+YScJCe84+awcwIvALEfbAiZ/ScWqm+QVQKhmDkoZljdkUVw+F8mgikdYrRPAVnO6Eh8tMS0KNH+ME2Gle4cQnyFKdDCRFK71digZY5pMpbQ4E1aFZjER5KV86DatxFG+U= Received: from canta (cpc1-popl1-0-0-cust343.popl.cable.ntl.com [81.106.81.88]) by pelican.sc3d.org (pf ESMTP spamd IP-based SPAM blocker) with ASMTP (SSL) id YTB18726 for <20904-done@bugs.debian.org>; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:09:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:09:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Reuben Thomas X-X-Sender: rrt@canta To: 20904-done@bugs.debian.org Subject: Your wish is granted: libmagic exists Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Getting magicfilter to use it is another matter, but the general-purpose library requested by this wishlist item is now in existence. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ island, n. a region of land entirely surrounded by advice (Shackleton) ------------=_1203354724-25402-0--   Notification sent to Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>:
Bug acknowledged by developer.   -t  MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.420 (Entity 5.420) X-Loop: owner@bugs.debian.org From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) To: Yann Dirson Subject: Bug#20904 closed by Reuben Thomas (Your wish is granted: libmagic exists) Message-ID: References: <199804091300.PAA14541@ppp37.a2points.com> X-Debian-PR-Message: they-closed 20904 X-Debian-PR-Package: file, magicfilter Reply-To: 20904@bugs.debian.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_1203354724-25402-1" This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1203354724-25402-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the file, magicfilter package: #20904: file, magicfilter: duplicate information - magic numbers It has been closed by Reuben Thomas . 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If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate message then please contact Reuben Thomas by replying to this email. --=20 20904: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D20904 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems ------------=_1203354724-25402-1 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: (at 20904-done) by bugs.debian.org; 18 Feb 2008 17:09:32 +0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (2006-07-26) on rietz.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,YOUTHERE autolearn=no version=3.1.4-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 Return-path: Received: from pelican.sc3d.org ([216.184.201.86]) by rietz.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JR9Ui-0005VI-0E for 20904-done@bugs.debian.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:09:32 +0000 DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; t=1203354566; x=1203959366; s=key1024; d=sc3d.org; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns; h=From:Subject:Date:Message-ID:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=krlfWWGZCKDzomDp2b11xj6hBZfrUWzo7Kg7sMNtV+YScJCe84+awcwIvALEfbAiZ/ScWqm+QVQKhmDkoZljdkUVw+F8mgikdYrRPAVnO6Eh8tMS0KNH+ME2Gle4cQnyFKdDCRFK71digZY5pMpbQ4E1aFZjER5KV86DatxFG+U= Received: from canta (cpc1-popl1-0-0-cust343.popl.cable.ntl.com [81.106.81.88]) by pelican.sc3d.org (pf ESMTP spamd IP-based SPAM blocker) with ASMTP (SSL) id YTB18726 for <20904-done@bugs.debian.org>; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:09:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:09:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Reuben Thomas X-X-Sender: rrt@canta To: 20904-done@bugs.debian.org Subject: Your wish is granted: libmagic exists Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Getting magicfilter to use it is another matter, but the general-purpose library requested by this wishlist item is now in existence. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ island, n. a region of land entirely surrounded by advice (Shackleton) ------------=_1203354724-25402-1 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 9 Apr 1998 12:59:36 +0000 Received: (qmail 28548 invoked from network); 9 Apr 1998 12:59:20 -0000 Received: from ppp-36.a2points.com (HELO ppp37.a2points.com) (root@195.10.6.36) by debian.novare.net with SMTP; 9 Apr 1998 12:59:20 -0000 Received: (from dwitch@localhost) by ppp37.a2points.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) id PAA14541; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:00:56 +0200 Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:00:56 +0200 Message-Id: <199804091300.PAA14541@ppp37.a2points.com> From: Yann Dirson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Debian bug-system submission Subject: file, magicfilter: duplicate information - magic numbers X-Mailer: VM 6.42 under Emacs 19.34.1 Package: file, magicfilter Version: 3.24-4, 1.2-20 Severity: wishlist Both file and magicfilter use a magic number DB to identify file formats. This leads to duplicate information - the DB's can't be expected to be in sync all of the time. Further more, both text DB formats are limitted to each one's field of application. It would be great to have a general-purpose magic-number-handling library, with a generic DB that would associate magics to cannonical ID's, and maybe other recognizable infos, like file can identify. "file" would be able to output its info in whatever language the user wishes, and "magicfilter" would have the same knowledge base as "file" does. Maybe the work I did for the console tools (recently uploaded into slink as package utils/console-tools) could be used as a base for this, although it is not generic enough as such: magic definitions are hardcoded in a struct - this can be easily fixed by using an external DB; there are only basic informations that allow to recognize a file with a magic+mask starting at offset 0 - the data structure have to be extended / made more generic). If your're interested in this idea, you will find the relevant code in console-tools' source package, in files lib/findfile*.c. -- Yann Dirson | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.a2points.com/homepage/3475232 | Check ------------=_1203354724-25402-1--   Received: (at 20904-done) by bugs.debian.org; 18 Feb 2008 17:09:32 +0000 From SRS0=f9b02e288de9431dd999fa939f20a35ff788fe1a=615=sc3d.org=rrt@sc3d.org Mon Feb 18 17:09:32 2008 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (2006-07-26) on rietz.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,YOUTHERE autolearn=no version=3.1.4-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 Return-path: Received: from pelican.sc3d.org ([216.184.201.86]) by rietz.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JR9Ui-0005VI-0E for 20904-done@bugs.debian.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:09:32 +0000 DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; t=1203354566; x=1203959366; s=key1024; d=sc3d.org; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns; h=From:Subject:Date:Message-ID:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=krlfWWGZCKDzomDp2b11xj6hBZfrUWzo7Kg7sMNtV+YScJCe84+awcwIvALEfbAiZ/ScWqm+QVQKhmDkoZljdkUVw+F8mgikdYrRPAVnO6Eh8tMS0KNH+ME2Gle4cQnyFKdDCRFK71digZY5pMpbQ4E1aFZjER5KV86DatxFG+U= Received: from canta (cpc1-popl1-0-0-cust343.popl.cable.ntl.com [81.106.81.88]) by pelican.sc3d.org (pf ESMTP spamd IP-based SPAM blocker) with ASMTP (SSL) id YTB18726 for <20904-done@bugs.debian.org>; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:09:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:09:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Reuben Thomas X-X-Sender: rrt@canta To: 20904-done@bugs.debian.org Subject: Your wish is granted: libmagic exists Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Getting magicfilter to use it is another matter, but the general-purpose library requested by this wishlist item is now in existence. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ island, n. a region of land entirely surrounded by advice (Shackleton)