file

file 4.26

Program to identify a file's format by scanning binary data for patterns

http://www.darwinsys.com/file/

Packager: Bahadır Kandemir

License: as-is

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Release history

ReleaseRelease dateVersionUpdaterComment
242010-10-114.26Fatih AşıcıMass rebuild for Pardus 2011 Beta
232010-08-114.26Serdar DalgıçAdd python byte compiled support for python2.7.
222010-06-084.26Ozan Çağlayanzlib is a dependency, not gzip
212009-09-154.26Onur KüçükFix duplicate SoftQuad entries to identify Xorg text files properly
202009-08-174.26Gökçen EraslanFix for OO.org does not print ps files created on Tuesday bug, ubuntu#255161 and ubuntu#248619. Thanks to Akın Ömeroğlu.
192009-05-074.26Gökçen EraslanAdd Python 2.6 magic
182009-04-134.26Ozan ÇağlayanRevert to 4.26 as 5.00 couldn't correctly detect some Perl file types.
172009-02-045.00Bahadır KandemirNew release:
- CDF support (MS Office 9x)
- Recursive magic support (can handle ID3 properly)
- Encoding fixes
162008-09-044.26Bahadır KandemirVersion bump
152008-08-054.25Bahadır KandemirVersion bump
142007-12-284.23Bahadır KandemirVersion bump
132007-12-284.22Bahadır KandemirAuthor updated package without increasing version.
122007-12-274.22Bahadır KandemirVersion bump
112007-09-094.21Onur KüçükFix bug #6304, add many magic fixes
102007-05-264.21S.Çağlar OnurBump to official one
92007-05-244.20İsmail DönmezFix CVE-2007-2799
82007-05-174.20S.Çağlar OnurMore on DoS attack with regex and Avoid crash on unknown option and enable option -e (From OpenSuse)
72007-04-174.20S.Çağlar OnurFix #5486
62007-03-294.20S.Çağlar OnurEnable python bindings, pisi and other tools now can use that
52007-03-194.20İsmail DönmezVersion bump to fix http://secunia.com/advisories/24548/
42006-12-274.19Bahadır KandemirVersion bump
32006-04-274.17S.Çağlar OnurFix header installation :(
22006-03-284.17Bahadır KandemirVersion bump.
12005-07-214.12S.Çağlar OnurFirst release.

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python.diff
220-magic-update-erlang.patch
duplicate_softquad.patch