* Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080503 14:52]:
> file or rather libmagic1 ships its magic files in /usr/share/file/,
> namely this used to be:
>
> /usr/share/file/magic
> /usr/share/file/magic.mgc
> /usr/share/file/magic.mime
> /usr/share/file/magic.mime.mgc
>
> where as *.mgc are the binary files which are used by file/libmagic, and
> the others are the conlgomerated source files *for informational
> purposes only*. The sources have never been used by file for anything,
> and nobody shall do this either[0].
> [0] they *could* change format suddenly, only the library and its
> bindings are safe.
And where is this documented? (It has a documentation for the format, so
I guess if that was supposed to be "writing" only, that was a canonical
place to state it).
> In unstable (and testing, soon), this has been avoided by an extra step
> of dumping a plain magic file in the old format and including the legacy
> copy of magic.mime from file version 4.23[2]. As soon as lenny is
> released, these will disappear and you're supposed to eventually convert
> your packages.
Thanks for the warning and the compaitibility wrapper. But please also
advertise that a bit wider. Just a mail to debian-devel is hardly enough
when breaking an advertised interface.
> Probably, I will also fill bug reports before lenny release to affected
> packages.
xfm is one of them. Perhaps I will find the time to file a list of
whishlist bugs to extend libmagic so it can be used instead of parsing
the files itself.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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