Thanks Matt,

I found your debian bug report last night and had come to the same
conclusion. Do you know if this bug is lenny before I go to the trouble of
building a lenny VM?

Cheers, mike

2009/4/6 Matt Taggart <[email protected]>

> > When I upload a tarball for analysis (tar.gz or tar.bz2) via the upload
> file
> > option, the tarball is not unpacked before analysis. The history of the
> job
> > reports that upack has run and completed OK, but browsing the completed
> > analysis results shows that no files have in fact been extracted from the
> > archive. The only data to be seen is the raw content of the archive and
> no
> > licences are detected, even though licences (e.g. GPL, BSD) are present.
>
> I think you are running into this libmagic bug
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500734
>
> We don't yet have a fix that will work on both older and newer versions of
> libmagic, but you could hack your copy of the source to only work on new
> versions in order to get it working.
>
> I just upgraded the severity of the bug to Release Critical, hopefully
> someone will come up with a fix.
>
> --
> Matt Taggart
> [email protected]
>
>
>
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