Package: file Version: 5.04-5 Severity: normal Ran across this very randomly. It seems that this depends on both contents and original filename:
$ cp /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib32/gconv/IBM423.so . $ file IBM423.so IBM423.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, not stripped $ gzip -c IBM423.so > test.gz $ file test.gz test.gz: Minix filesystem, V1, 30 char names (big endian), 59670 zones $ cp IBM423.so test.so $ gzip -c test.so > test.gz $ file test.gz test.gz: gzip compressed data, was "test.so", from Unix, last modified: Thu Apr 21 16:52:36 2011 I've attached the debug symbols file that triggered this... -Kees -- Kees Cook @debian.org
IBM423.so
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