Bug#896932: file: detect monitor EDID file format

[Christoph Biedl]

Control: tags 896932 confirmed upstream pending
Control: forwarded 896932 https://bugs.astron.com/view.php?id=12

Paul Wise wrote...

> Please detect files starting with this header as EDID metadata:
> 
> 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF 00
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Display_Identification_Data

Thanks, now forwarded upstream.

Christoph


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Bug#896932: file: detect monitor EDID file format

[Gürkan Myczko]

as talked on irc, the patch could be like this:

# magic for EDID metadata files
0string\x00\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\x00EDID metadata

I haven't tested it, but put it in your /etc/magic, and run file on your 
data files


Best,

Bug#896932: file: detect monitor EDID file format

[Paul Wise]

Package: file
Version: 1:5.32-2
Severity: wishlist

Please detect files starting with this header as EDID metadata:

00 FF FF FF FF FF FF 00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Display_Identification_Data

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 
'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 
'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages file depends on:
ii  libc6  2.27-3
ii  libmagic1  1:5.32-2
ii  zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

file recommends no packages.

file suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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