This bug was fixed upstream almost a year ago. It would be nice to see this addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, which is still on libmagic1 version 5.25.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to file in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1741128 Title: libmagic1 in 16.04 reports XLS files as application/CDFV2-unknown Status in file package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The libmagic1 package repots XLS files as application/CDFV2-unknown This is a bug in the libmagic code and has been fixed in version 5.31 and up. see: https://github.com/mscdex/mmmagic/issues/107 We have a file transfer app running on LTS 16.04 and it's constantly rejecting files of .xls Deleted /companies/5412/FROM/RDMS_History.XLS Mime Type:application/CDFV2-unknown To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file/+bug/1741128/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp