Package: libmagic1 Version: 5.04-4 Tags: patch Severity: wishlist The magic number for Bio-Rad PIC files is "12345" as a little-endian short. Unfortunately, this maps to the string "90"; thus, ASCII text files such as email messages can sometimes be misidentified. Additionally, it's below the recommended minimum size for magic numbers.
I'm working around this by the method I used on bug 499748. There are boolean fields in the format which take up two bytes but can only every have the values 0 or 1; since plain text files don't contain the bytes 0x00 or 0x01, this fixes the false positives. This was originally reported on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file/+bug/61360 The patch will follow momentarily, so that I can put the bug number in the description; please let me know if anything about it needs to be changed. Adam Buchbinder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
