Package: file Version: 1:5.30-1 Severity: important A recent upgrade has rendered file just about usless as it is only able to identify text in the most limited sense.
for example: $ file /usr/bin/file /etc/magic, 4: Warning: using regular magic file `/usr/share/misc/magic' /usr/bin/file: data or: $ file /usr/share/doc/file/* /etc/magic, 4: Warning: using regular magic file `/usr/share/misc/magic' /usr/share/doc/file/changelog.Debian.gz: data /usr/share/doc/file/changelog.gz: data /usr/share/doc/file/copyright: ASCII text /usr/share/doc/file/README.Debian: ASCII text /usr/share/doc/file/README.gz: data I was expecting something a little more detailed like this from another machine: $ file /usr/bin/file /usr/share/doc/file/* /usr/bin/file: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID [sha1]=b71c29fa59ca57fa80408b99e5b82c2118bd358d, stripped /usr/share/doc/file/changelog.Debian.gz: gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix /usr/share/doc/file/changelog.gz: gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix /usr/share/doc/file/copyright: ASCII text /usr/share/doc/file/README.Debian: ASCII text /usr/share/doc/file/README.gz: gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-rt-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages file depends on: ii libc6 2.24-10 ii libmagic1 1:5.30-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 file recommends no packages. file suggests no packages.
