Package: file
Version: 4.17-4
Severity: wishlist
Hi there,
While building "rpm", I noticed it uses an internal embedded copy of
"file" (which isn't up-to-date BTW). RPM's configure.ac has some
logic to build with an external libmagic, but unfortunately rpmfile.c
#includes patchlevel.h and file.h which are not in libmagic-dev.
These are unlikely to be part of the API, but perhaps you could ship
them nevertheless in some non-default include dir so that RPM can be
built with Debian's file nevertheless? i.e.
/usr/lib/file/include/file.h and patchlevel.h, and I would pass
-I/usr/lib/file/include to CFLAGS.
Bye,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages file depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libmagic1 4.17-4 File type determination library us
file recommends no packages.
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Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
