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Bug#988451: file: Latex source files with directives detected as Postscript

From	Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#988451: file: Latex source files with directives detected as Postscript
Date	2025-01-28 14:40 +0100
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Hi,

On 2022-09-27 08:26:32 +0200, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> The file too starts with "%!". According to [1] the magic byte for
> Postscript is "%!PS". So the check is not strict enough to rule out false
> positives.
> 
> Hilmar
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_signatures

I also found this bug yesterday, and I've reported it upstream.

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Bug#988451: file: Latex source files with directives detected as Postscript Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2025-01-28 14:40 +0100
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