On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 04:36:07PM +0300, Lasse Collin wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:11:31PM +0200, Géraud Meyer wrote:
> > > Package: file
> > > Version: 4.21-3
> > >
> > > Any lzma compressed file I encountered is not recognized as LZMA
> > > compressed data. An example:
> > >
> > > $ cat > test
> > > Text file
> > > $ lzma test
> > > $ file test.lzma
> > > test.lzma: data
> > >
> > > I also tested the version 4.20-3 (found here:
> > > http://archive.daniel-baumann.ch/debian/packages/file/4.20-3/) that
> > > was supposed to be fixed and it gives the same result.
> >
> > I recall they had plans to change the signature.  CCing the lzma
> > maintainers, maybe they know something..
> 
> The .lzma format currently in use is too hard to detect without looking 
> at the filename suffix. The new .lzma format will fix this and a few 
> other problems, but there are no stable tools to handle the new format 
> yet.

Wait, I'm lost now.  Which version of the format was my patch targetted
at, the old or the new one?   Or there are 3 of them?  :-)

P.S: don't CC me, I'm the bug submitter

-- 
Robert Millan

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