On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:40 +0100, Michael Piefel wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 24.01.2007, 16:23 +0100 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 759168 2004-07-30 12:34 /etc/magic > > > > Looks like I somehow ended up with a stale file there. Installing 4.17-5 > > or 4.19-1 leaves it intact. Shouldn't dpkg prompt me about the modified > > conffile? Colour me confused. > > Well, dpkg will complain about a _modified_ conffile when the version in > the package changed and the version on disk is not the same as the old > version (IOW, contains local changes). However, /etc/magic contains the > same 110 bytes for a number of years now (it’s empty with a comment).
I see, thanks. > Your /etc/magic is quite large, much larger even than the ‘official’ > magic database provided in the package. Did the package ever ship such a large /etc/magic though? If it did, then I suppose my /etc/magic was some kind of artifact of that time. > I’m afraid I cannot tell which entries trigger the warnings. Well, I didn't really mean to use that /etc/magic file, so unless it's supposed to work with any old magic file and you want to find out why this one breaks, feel free to close this bug. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
