Change or bug in "file"-command evtl. messed-up "fai-do-scripts" execution

[René Bleisch]

Thanks a lot for your suggestion, this temporary fix also works for me!

Regards
René

On 03/21/2014 01:41 PM, Ralf Utermann wrote:
> On 21.03.2014 13:10, René Bleisch wrote:
>> Hi Toomas,
>> Both PCs are wheezy (Linux ... 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 x86_64
>> GNU/Linux)
>>
>> "file"-versions:
>> works correctly:     5.11-2+deb7u*1*
>> doesn't work:         5.11-2+deb7u*2*
>>
>> Most likely the  problem is due to the BEGIN { ...} block which is in the
>> opening of the respective perl-scripts.
>> ( see
> I can confirm this. Looks like the problem is
> /usr/share/file/magic.mgc in package libmagic1 (5.11-2+deb7u2).
> If you install the new packages, but keep an old version of
> magic.mgc, it's recognized as perl.
> With wheezy-backports libmagic1 (1:5.14-2~bpo70+1) it's also ok.
>
> regards, Ralf