Re: Bug in file command magic

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:02:02 -0500 (EST), Giovanni Funchal wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've just noticed that the file command returns wrong mime for a file.
> In fact, if a LaTeX file uses the command \bibligraphystyle somewhere
> in the beginning, file will return mime "text/vnd.graphviz" instead of
> "text/x-tex". I took a look at /usr/share/file/magic (on Lenny), and
> it has something like :
> 
> 0    regex/100    [\r\n\t\ ]*graph[\r\n\t\ ]*.*\\{    graphviz graph text
> !:mime    text/vnd.graphviz
> 
> This regular expression matches \biblioGRAPHystyle in the first
> thousand characters or so. A good fix would be :
> 
> - 0    regex/100    [\r\n\t\ ]*graph[\r\n\t\ ]*.*\\{    graphviz graph text
> + 0    regex/100    (^|[\r\n\t\ ]+)graph[\r\n\t\ ]*.*\\{    graphviz graph text
> 
> Since in the dot file format[1], the keyword "graph" must be preceded
> by a white space or be in the beginning of the file.
> 
> Anyone knows where I can report this?
>
> [1] http://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/lang.html

According to the packages page on the Debian web site, /usr/share/file/magic
belongs to package libmagic1.  I would suggest filing a bug report against
package libmagic1.