So, what is this bug still about ? It's clear to me that KDE won't be using /etc/mime-magic any time soon, because that system is not standard either, and misses some of the features of KDE's system. /etc/magic isn't even a candidate, as it doesn't contain the data that KDE needs. Or perhaps KDE should use /etc/magic as an additional config file ? This would be nice, but it's not a "sine qua non" kinda thing, since the admin can already achieve the same by putting a link in /etc/kde3/magic to /etc/magic. Or maybe the KDE packages should do the latter ?
About the location of the kolf magic file, this isn't really a kdelibs bug, and not "important" ( in the sense of the debian BTS ) either. Furthermore, there's no simple way of fixing it, afaics. About the documentation, erm, I'm not really sure what it should say, or where it should be put. Any thoughts anyone ? Anyone fancy doing the work ? Any more things that need discussing ? cheers domi