Package: file Version: 1:5.30-1+deb9u1 Severity: normal It would be nice to have something a bit more descriptive for FIT image:
$ file arch/mips/boot/vmlinux.gz.itb arch/mips/boot/vmlinux.gz.itb: data Compared from the u-boot command line tool: $ mkimage -l arch/mips/boot/vmlinux.gz.itb FIT description: Linux 4.14.0-rc5-00036-gb900e164bc3a-dirty Created: Wed Oct 18 21:46:50 2017 Image 0 (kernel@0) Description: Linux 4.14.0-rc5-00036-gb900e164bc3a-dirty Created: Wed Oct 18 21:46:50 2017 Type: Kernel Image Compression: gzip compressed Data Size: 4096329 Bytes = 4000.32 kB = 3.91 MB Architecture: MIPS OS: Linux Load Address: 0xffffffff80100000 Entry Point: 0xffffffff807889c0 Hash algo: sha1 Hash value: b071fb516a3f5ad1cc89f2fbdaad198595eced15 Default Configuration: 'conf@default' Configuration 0 (conf@default) Description: Generic Linux kernel Kernel: kernel@0 -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages file depends on: ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libmagic1 1:5.30-1+deb9u1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 file recommends no packages. file suggests no packages. -- no debconf information