Your message dated Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:59:18 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#923396: file -e <testname> should silently ignore 
nonexistent testnames
has caused the Debian Bug report #923396,
regarding file -e <testname> should silently ignore nonexistent testnames
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Package: file
Version: 1:5.35-2
Severity: wishlist

I get the following error:

$ file -e foo /dev/null
Usage: file [-bcCdEhikLlNnprsvzZ0] [--apple] [--extension] [--mime-encoding]
            [--mime-type] [-e <testname>] [-F <separator>]  [-f <namefile>]
            [-m <magicfiles>] [-P <parameter=value>] <file> ...
       file -C [-m <magicfiles>]
       file [--help]

because testname foo does not exist. This should silently be ignored,
so that if the testname is added in a later version, one can
unconditionally use "file -e foo" on all machines.

As an example, "file -e json" works in Debian/unstable, but not
in stretch.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 
'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, 
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX 
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages file depends on:
ii  libc6      2.28-7
ii  libmagic1  1:5.35-2
ii  zlib1g     1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

file recommends no packages.

file suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Control: fixed 923396 1:5.39-1

Upstream added an --exclude-quiet option, that was part of 1:5.39-1 which was
uploaded in November 2020 and is now included in the recently release Debian 11
("bullseye"). Seems I just forgot to close this bug.

    Christoph

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