Bug#416263: RFA: file -- Determines file type using "magic" numbers
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I request an adopter for the file package. file is of priority standard
and comes with a library and thus the following additional packages are
generated from the source: libmagic-dev, libmagic1 and python-magic.
I believe the package to be in pretty good shape, even if the bug count
suggests otherwise; most bugs are requests for the addition of new
entries in the magic database and are not that urgent.
The package description is:
File tests each argument in an attempt to classify it. There are three
sets of tests, performed in this order: filesystem tests, magic number
tests, and language tests. The first test that succeeds causes the
file type to be printed.
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Starting with version 4, the file command is not much more than a wrapper
around the "magic" library.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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