Bug#483111: apache's mod_mime_magic does not support newer libmagic functionality
On Tuesday 07 July 2009, John Morrissey wrote:
> As Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> mentions, mod_mime_magic probably
> shouldn't be reading /usr/share/file/magic.mime, as libmagic may be
> updated with new functionality that mod_mime_magic won't be able to
> grok. I'm not sure if it's appropriate/best to link mod_mime_magic
> against libmagic for parsing duty; upstream apache2 trunk is still
> parsing the file itself.
apache2.2-common should bring its own magic.mime file in a format that
apache understands. I don't think apache can be easily made to use
libmagic.
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