Package: file
Version: 4.17-2
Severity: important

The output of the present (Sid) version of the man -t command is
mis-identified as "awk script text". This causes my print system (which uses
the file command) to print man pages as plain text (source code), rather
than treating them as Postscript. This is "a major effect on the usability
of the package".

I do not know if this is due to a recent change in man/groff or in file, but
it can anyway be cured by giving the Postscript magic higher priority (as
shown by copying the relevant lines from /usr/share/file/magic to
/etc/magic).

Regards, Jan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages file depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libmagic1                     4.17-2     File type determination library us
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.2.3-12 compression library - runtime

file recommends no packages.

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