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Bug#963589: lintian: detection error package-contains-timestamped-gzip

From	Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#963589: lintian: detection error package-contains-timestamped-gzip
Date	2020-06-24 12:30 +0200
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Hi Paul,

> Looks like there are a lot of bugs in the .tfm detection in file:

Indeed.

> So probably the right solution is for lintian to ignore *.tfm files
> when searching for gzip files.

Or ignoring .tfm files altogether? I reported already all kind of
miscategorization - wasn't there something about Windows executable or
similar once.

> You may want to talk to file upstream about the *.tfm detection issues.

Good idea, I will check the tfm specification and see how that could be
integrated into "file" itself to detect a tfm.

Thanks

Norbert

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Bug#963589: lintian: detection error package-contains-timestamped-gzip Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> - 2020-06-24 08:30 +0200
  Bug#963589: lintian: detection error package-contains-timestamped-gzip Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2020-06-24 09:40 +0200
    Bug#963589: lintian: detection error package-contains-timestamped-gzip Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> - 2020-06-24 12:30 +0200

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