bug#33499: closed (file-5.33 doesn't detect berkeley-db files correctly)

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regarding file-5.33 doesn't detect berkeley-db files correctly
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> file-5.33 doesn't detect berkeley-db files correctly
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> Sun, 25 Nov 2018 13:10:48 +0100
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> Hi,
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> our file on core-updates (soon to be master), fails to detect
> berkeley-db files correctly. I've sent a bug report upstream about this
> issue here: https://bugs.astron.com/view.php?id=54
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> This issue seems to be only present on file-5.33, and is solved in more
> recent versions. I haven't fixed the issue on core-updates because it's
> a rebuild-the-world change, and I don't think we can push those anymore
> at this stage in core-updates.
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> This issue affects diffoscope, where a test fails because it doesn't
> detect the correct file type. You can reproduce the issue with:
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> file /path/to/diffoscope/source/tests/data/test1.db
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> which returns `, created: Thu Jan 1 00:38:24 1970` instead of `Berkeley
> DB (Btree, version 9, native byte-order)`.
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> For now, I've disabled the test in diffoscope, so we can build it.
> Other packages might be affected by this bug.
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> Re: bug#33499: file-5.33 doesn't detect berkeley-db files correctly
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> Wed, 04 Aug 2021 23:37:42 -0400
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> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
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> > Hi,
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> > our file on core-updates (soon to be master), fails to detect
> > berkeley-db files correctly. I've sent a bug report upstream about this
> > issue here: https://bugs.astron.com/view.php?id=54
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> > This issue seems to be only present on file-5.33, and is solved in more
> > recent versions. I haven't fixed the issue on core-updates because it's
> > a rebuild-the-world change, and I don't think we can push those anymore
> > at this stage in core-updates.
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> We now have 5.38 on master.  Closing.
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> Thanks,
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> Maxim
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