Bug#577208: lintian: wrong heuristic to detect gzip manpages
reassign 577208 file
forcemerge 522441 577208
thanks
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean@debian.org> writes:
> Without changing anything in my package, lintian find that one of the
> manpages is not in gzip form, whereas it is really.
> The package is yaz_4.0.2-1 that I uploaded to unstable a few days ago.
> It was working correctly, no problem with lintian.
Yes, this is bug #522441 in file. It only triggers once in a blue moon,
but it's really annoying when it does. I really wish someone would fix
it; I suspect what's needed is to move up the priority of the gzip
hueristic above some of the other things that file thinks the file might
be, since the magic number is not unambiguous. (But gzip files are way
more common than, say, Sun disk labels or Minix file systems.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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