Re: Bug#275816: ITP: libfile-type-perl -- determine file type using magic
* Hilko Bengen:
> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>
>> File::Type uses magic numbers (typically at the start of a file) to
>> determine the MIME type of that file.
>>
>> File::Type can use either a filename, or file contents, to determine the
>> type of a file.
>>
>> (Another svk dependency.)
>
> Does its feature differ from File::MMagic (libfile-mmagic-perl)?
Not really. Actually File::Type appears to be inferior because it
doesn't use the magic(5) configuration files of the system.
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