Package: file
Version: 4.12-1
Severity: important

Any text files starting with !! are wrongly identified as 'Assembler source'.

~~~~~~~~~~ Test One ~~~~~~~~~~~~
$ cat TestFile
!
!

$ od -a TestFile
0000000   !  nl   !  nl
0000004

$ file TestFile
TestFile: Assembler source

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Test Two ~~~~~~~~~~~
$cat TestFile2 
! ! 

$ od -a TestFile2
0000000   !  sp   !  sp  nl
0000005

$ file TestFile2 
TestFile2: Assembler source


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.18-1-k6
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to 
en_US)

Versions of packages file depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libmagic1                   4.12-1       File type determination library us
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.3-3    compression library - runtime

file recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information
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