Package: file
Version: 4.24-4
Severity: important

What I expected to happen:

  That `file --mime-type some.xml` (where some.xml is any file
  containing valid XML) should return either text/xml,
  application/xml, or something more specific (like
  application/atom+xml for example).

What happened instead:

  More often than not, just text/plain is returned. Sometimes, like
  for /usr/share/mime/text/x-haskell.xml, text/x-pascal is returned,
  or for /usr/share/xml/docbook/schema/dtd/catalog.xml, text/html is
  reported, both of which are wrong.

  I ran:

    locate *.xml | xargs file --brief --mime-type |
      egrep '(application|text)/xml'

  and got no output at all. The `locate` command found about 28000
  files.

This bug was originally reported against the file package in Ubuntu:

  <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file/+bug/285031>

The file package in Intrepid is sync'ed directly with Debian, hence
why I'm forwarding this bug report.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers intrepid-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'intrepid-updates'), (500, 'intrepid-security'), (500, 
'intrepid')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages file depends on:
ii  libc6           2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libmagic1       4.24-4                   File type determination library us
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12ubuntu1 compression library - runtime

file recommends no packages.

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