Bug#1026976: Upcoming test suite regression due to changes in file/libmagic

FC Stegerman flx at obfusk.net
Sun Dec 25 21:25:08 GMT 2022


* Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn at manchmal.in-ulm.de> [2022-12-25 14:20]:
> As I understand it, this is result of how t/fixtures/pyzip/pyzip.in is
> described by file(1):
> 
> - a /usr/bin/python3 script executable (binary data)
> + Zip archive, with extra data prepended
> 
> Now that looks a bit delicate ... if you think this is something that
> should be handled in file/libmagic, let me know.

[Disclaimer: this is just my personal opinion, I'm an RB contributor
but not involved in maintaining strip-nondeterminism.]

IMO that seems like a useful change in and of itself, but perhaps not
something that should take precedence over a #! line.

Perhaps something like

  a /usr/bin/python3 script executable (Zip archive)

would be ideal in this case, but I imagine that might not be trivial
to implement.

Thanks!

- FC



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