file (3.37-3.1.woody.1) stable; urgency=high * [SECURITY] fix buffer overflow in readelf.c -- Michael Stone Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:30:43 -0500 file (3.37-3.1) unstable; urgency=low * NMU * Removed regexp.patch and kleff, they didn't serve a purpose * Bumped standards-version to 3.5. * Added Kimwitu magic * Improved MS Office Magic (closes: #116693, #54960) * Added XV thumb, ISDN vbox, KiSS (closes: #54391) * Emacs 19 improved upstream (closes: #101336) * Added long HtmlHelp magic (closes: #113876) * Added webshots desktop (closes: #118517) * Added newer Python magic (closes: #119572) * Ogg magic improved upstream (closes: #91858) * XFS cleaned up (closes: #129172) * Targa reports size (closes: #133024) * Documented arbitrary 50 character description limit and increased it to 80 characters (closes: #12415) - the patch for unlimited length doesn't work, at least not at advertised. * Added Atari MSA (closes: #95040) * TI-8x updated (closes: #102824) * Better Swap (closes: #105504) * Increased buffer size to 96K (closes: #105505) * Better CRAMFS (closes: #115575) * Added JFFS (closes: #118900) * Added Hercules DASD image magic (closes: #122326) * Added TDB magic (closes: #122328) * Added Matlab (closes: #125666) * Added Squeak images and (closes: #131627) * Added User Mode COW magic (closes: #134619) * Added even better Ogg magic and even include it (closes: #134663) -- Michael Piefel Mon, 04 Mar 2002 19:47:32 +0100 file (3.37-3) unstable; urgency=low * Implemented internal gzip support through the zlib library. It's much faster than executing gzip and it works better. Many small files that weren't properly handled now are. I've tested this with over 400 random gzipped files and it works, but please, report any problem with this. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Sun, 14 Oct 2001 05:56:19 -0300 file (3.37-2) unstable; urgency=low * The new sread function was sooo broken... I have now enhanced it with the amazing capability of handling EOF. Now file -z shouldn't hang (closes:Bug#115156). -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Thu, 11 Oct 2001 03:10:10 -0300 file (3.37-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release: * Recognizes mp3 files with IDv2 tags (closes:Bug#112829, Bug#96688). * Adds magic for RRDtool databases (closes:Bug#114372). * Weak magic for AppleWorks spreadsheet data was removed (closes:Bug#110451,Bug#98447). * Remove warning for not using a compiled magic version for /etc/magic. I won't try to implement something to create a compiled version of /etc/magic as: 1) This fle is empty by default and will have only a few manually added entries, so there wouldn't be any speed gain; 2) It will add complexity and it wouldn't be trivial. * Added a note in magic2mime(1) deprecating its use. * No longer recognizes sunclock's "vector map format" as PostScript (closes:Bug#105930). * Added magic for cramfs and reiserfs from russell@coker.com.au (closes:Bug#105485, Bug#105508). * Added two Palm file formats from John Gruenenfelder (closes:Bug#104034). -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Mon, 8 Oct 2001 19:49:42 -0300 file (3.33-5) unstable; urgency=low * Added "Build-Depends: debhelper" (closes:Bug#86829). * New magic for S/390 ELF binaries (closes:Bug#93491). * Added support for large files (closes:Bug#93402). * Fixed magic2mime to cope with the new charset detection (closes:Bug#92931). * Added -s option to short usage message (-h) (closes:Bug#85910). * Added magic for Paint Shop Pro from Telford Tendys (closes:Bug#85359). * Removed minor PS version number from font detection magic, suggested by Reinhard Kotucha (closes:Bug#82667). * Added magic for Flac audio (what's that? =) ) from Matt Zimmerman (closes:Bug#91857). * Added magic for newer LHA files (does someone still use lha? wow!) from Paul Martin (closes:Bug#83454). * Now shows which compressor a Debian package uses, contributed by Ben Collins (closes:Bug#48389). * Removed creation date report from Debian magic, it no longer works. It seems that the gzipped members of the .deb file are no longer created with the proper date. * Added lots of Palm documents contributed by Michael-John Turner (but replaced "document" with "PalmOS document") (closes:Bug#87759). * Added magic for Squish and JAM echomail/netmail Fidonet areas storage formats contributed by peter@softwolves.pp.se (closes:Bug#90172). -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Sun, 6 May 2001 02:13:10 -0300 file (3.33-4) unstable; urgency=low * Modified Newton PDA package format magic so it doesn't match Java source code files. * When using -z, don't write the NUL terminator to the uncompressing program. * Ignore output from gzip (gzip should have an option to disable the "unexpected end of file" error message) (closes:Bug#83317). * Minor updates to debian/rules. * Reordered description for MIPS object files to please weak parsing in libtool (closes:Bug#83303). -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:03 -0300 file (3.33-3) unstable; urgency=low * Code for detecting if an input stream is seekable assumed that lseek returns 0 on success, which is untrue, and file was copying every ELF file probed to a temporary file. Fixed (closes:Bug#82261). Found by Colin Watson . * Uses -g only if debug is in the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS variable. * Updated standards-version to 3.2.1. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Mon, 15 Jan 2001 02:26:35 -0300 file (3.33-2) unstable; urgency=low * Added ELF magic for IBM AS/390 mainframe (closes:Bug#79575). * Fix from Adam Heat for very small .gz files and -z, I've also added NUL termination of the uncompressed buffer (closes:Bug#16837,Bug#36724,Bug#37838). * If the file is ELF and is not seekable, `file' will now copy it to a temporary file because the ELF code needs to fseek everywhere in the file. The idea was from Adam Heath . (closes:Bug#28964,Bug#70629). -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:38:58 -0300 file (3.33-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release (closes:Bug#67970). Fixes: * Recognizes Berkeley DB files (closes:Bug#18821). * Tries to recognize EBCDIC encoded files (closes:Bug#31949). * lif files recognized in LE systems (closes:Bug#78261). * Contributions from Wolfram Kleff (closes:Bug#56667). * Changed pgp armored data to pgp armored *text*. * Added GEM image and metafile from. * Added Vivo video format. * Added STAD packed image. * Added AFX compressed files. * Added GFA-BASIC 3 data. * Added ICE and X11 authority data. * Added magic for DJGPP compiled files from Robert vd Boon (closes:Bug#70600). * Changed file for data here and there (closes:Bug#35851). * Added Sketch document (closes:Bug#67511). * Added SMJPEG (image format used in games) (closes:Bug#62224). * Added magic for Sony PlayStation executables (closes:Bug#31310). * Added other way of detecting perl scripts (closes:Bug#45426). * Fixed detection of MP3 files with the new -i option. * Adapted Debian patch to include long-options alternatives for the new -k and -i options. Updated the manpage. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Sun, 10 Dec 2000 19:02:07 -0300 file (3.28-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release. Fixes: * A serious attempt to detect JPEG is done now, but the format seems to be not very magic friendly (closes:Bug#31950). * DB2 magic added (closes:Bug#19097). * Added another case combination for the detection of HTML files (closes:Bug#45326). * Improved newly added xml detection (eg: added XSL stylesheets detection). * Some magic files weren't being included, modified Makefile.am. The files now included are jpeg, grace, mcrypt, palm and spectrum. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:58:01 -0300 file (3.27-7) unstable; urgency=low * Added entry for recently announced new LSM file format. * Removed README.Debian and folded it into the copyright file (closes:Bug#53069). -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Fri, 24 Dec 1999 20:23:48 -0300 file (3.27-6) unstable; urgency=low * Applied patch with improvements to magi2mime from J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) (closes:Bug#51399). * Added some Windows magic from Pavel Machek (closes:Bug#31023). * Added magic for PCX, Adobe's PSD, MS Word, and replaced magic for kernel detection with contributions from Wolfram Kleff (closes:Bug#46781). * Added magic for Linux kernel System.map files. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Sun, 12 Dec 1999 17:09:08 -0300 file (3.27-5) unstable; urgency=low * Put docs and manpages under /usr/share. * Updated `Standards-Version' to 3.1.0. * Added contributed magic for `Smith Corona Personal Word Processors' (closes:Bug#45704). * Added magic for X-Post-it (closes:Bug#43031). * Improved detection of MS-DOS batch files a bit (closes:Bug#50205). -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Mon, 15 Nov 1999 01:09:13 -0300 file (3.27-4) unstable; urgency=low * It was not reading /etc/magic. * Updated manpage to say that local magic entries are read from and should be written to /etc/magic. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Sat, 10 Jul 1999 19:40:17 -0300 file (3.27-3) unstable; urgency=low * Added detection of SIDPlay audio files (closes: Bug#35564, Bug#35483). * Added "#include " to compress.c (closes: Bug#37705). * Fixed tiny typos in README (closes: Bug#38877). * Added magic for Atari ST executables from Wolfram Kleff . * Added formats for some communications standards contributed by W. Borgert (closes: Bug#34542, Bug#34779). * Removed detection of format `Fasttracker "oktalyzer" module sound data'. It was just 2 bytes at offset 0 and generated false positives (closes: Bug#36704). * Added detection of MPEG audio level 2.5 and improved messages for level 3 (mp3) contributed by Wolfram Kleff (closes: Bug#40733). * Added audio/midi to magic2mime. * Readded magic2mime to package. It was removed by mistake. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Sat, 10 Jul 1999 03:11:45 -0300 file (3.27-2) unstable; urgency=low * Removed detection of unstriped binaries. Patch from Sean Perry . Fixes bugs #38407, #38417, 38419. * Added detection of NITF files from jrv@vanzandt.mv.com. Fixes bug #38452. * No longer includes Localstuff in /usr/share/misc/magic. Local definitions should go to /etc/magic. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Fri, 28 May 1999 00:39:32 -0300 file (3.27-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release. Fixes bugs #36786, #30692, #29353 (added shockwave/flash files). * Removed detection of "OS/2 URL objects": too general. * Truncates \n on output. file's outputs MUST be one line per file. Fixes bugs #34439, #34290, #35222, #32305, #32302, #30875. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Tue, 25 May 1999 21:50:13 -0300 file (3.26-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Moved x86 boot sector detection after linux kernel detection. Fixes bug #24185. * Added kernel version extraction for newer kernels. * Removed `,' from GIF description's end. * Changed version shown to 3.26-Debian, as this version is different from upstream. * Added manpage for magic2mime. * Added more mime types for magic2mime and some fixes for the script. * Switched to debhelper. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:08:24 -0300 file (3.26-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release. Upstream author included many Debian enhancements and added some minor fixes. Fixes bug #30692. Bug #30875 was fixed in previous NMU. * Fixed autoconf use. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Wed, 20 Jan 1999 03:15:45 +0000 file (3.24-4.2) frozen unstable; urgency=HIGH * NMU: Fix critical bugs #31031 and #31057. -- Vincent Renardias Wed, 6 Jan 1999 01:51:15 +0100 file (3.24-4.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer release. * Add patch so "\n"-style escapes work (closes:Bug#22854). -- Joel Klecker Sun, 13 Dec 1998 16:44:18 -0800 file (3.24-4) frozen unstable; urgency=low * Added `-f' to an rm that might obstaculize automatic builds, fixes bug #19970. * Removed very old Debian package detection that caused files starting with 0.9 to show no description at all, fixes bugs #19657 and #19677. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:18:34 -0300 file (3.24-3) unstable; urgency=low * Small fix in online help. * Changed `Standards-version' to 2.4.0.0 (no changes required). * Moved /usr/share/magic to /usr/share/misc/magic, fixes bug #18639. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Sun, 8 Mar 1998 14:28:45 -0300 file (3.24-2) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed upstream completely broken configure.in (wasn't showing special files major & minor numbers). * Included upsstream magic2mime in the binary package. * Added more HTML tokns to names.h. * Added lzop compressd files definition, contributed by Paolo Molaro . * Moved magic data to /usr/share/magic (not a conffile). /etc/magic will be used for local magic definitions. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:21:59 -0300 file (3.24-1) unstable; urgency=low * names.h: Added HTML. * New upstream release. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Sat, 21 Feb 1998 00:47:11 -0300 file (3.23-1) unstable; urgency=low * Added long version for the new option `-b' (`--brief'). Added long option to manpage. Added the option to the usge message (`--help'). * Added GNU message catalog magic, contributed by Santiago Vila Doncel , fixes bug #14743. * Removed duplcated entry for romfs, fixes bug #13977. * New upstream release, fixes bug #17830. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Thu, 19 Feb 1998 00:12:32 -0300 file (3.20.1-8) unstable; urgency=low * Added magic for Octave contributed by Dirk Eddelbuettel * names.h: Added detectionn of Java source code. * softmagic.c: When converting endianness only swap bytes if needed. * Use %m instead of strerr. * Added magic for WordPerfect files, contributed by Scott K. Ellis . -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Fri, 10 Oct 1997 17:22:27 -0300 file (3.20.1-7) unstable; urgency=low * Changed maintainer address. * Added filesystems and Linux86 magic, contributed by Juan Cespedes , fixes #13279. * Keep files' date. * Added GIMP file formats, contributed by Kenneth MacDonald . -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Wed, 9 Jul 1997 00:22:38 -0300 file (3.20.1-6) unstable; urgency=low * Minor changes to debian/rules. * Modified manpage. * Added `--help' option. * Added magic data for vgetty voice formats (thanks to David Engel ). * Arguments to a printf casted to long long, fixes #10779. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:21:58 -0300 file (3.20.1-5) unstable; urgency=low * Added Linux kernel boot image version detection for new kernels. * Removed `-Wall' warnings. * Added "DEC SRC Virtual Paper: Lectern files" type, contributed by Karl M. Hegbloom . * Removed useless RCS ids. * Corrected compilation flags. * Don't try to keep file modification time, it changed file status change time. And it's more natural a change in access time than in file status change time. Fixes bug #7920. * Minor fix to manpage. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:55:49 -0300 file (3.20.1-4) unstable; urgency=low * Built with libc6. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Wed, 18 Jun 1997 00:09:58 -0300 file (3.20.1-3) unstable; urgency=low * Removed information about who created the /etc/magic file. * Removed creation date from /etc/magic. This changed the md5sum of this conffile every release. * Man page updated. * Added long options support. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:19:43 -0300 file (3.20.1-2) unstable; urgency=low * Improved MS applications' docuemts detection (#4473). * Added Steve McIntyre's contributed formats (#6735). * New upstream release has fixed bugs #5777 #5838 and #6656 . All reporting that file didn't detect Java's .class. * My name is Nicolás. Fixes #7238 (!). -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Wed, 12 Feb 1997 02:53:42 -0300 file (3.20.1-1) unstable; urgency=low * Added LSM files detection. * Clarified header of /etc/magic. * Added detection of creation time for .deb's. * Added detection of 2.1.x kernels. * Upstream fix to handle \n in arguments to string format broke description that expected \n to end the string. Changed file to discard \n's and following text at print time. * Upstream changelog included. * New upstream release -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Sun, 9 Feb 1997 23:41:39 -0300 file (3.19-7) unstable; urgency=low * Corrected section in control file. * New maintainer. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Sun, 9 Feb 1997 21:49:19 -0300 file (3.19-6) unstable; urgency=low * Added detection of pcap data files (like used by tcpdump) Peter Tobias * Removed signal detection from core files. Doesn't work for ELF binaries Peter Tobias . * Changed to new source format. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier Mon, 3 Feb 1997 20:11:00 -0300 File 3.19 Debian 5 Mon Jul 8 23:07:21 1996 Darren Stalder * Change of maintainer and updated for multi-architecture build (fixes Bug #3332) * Un-right-justified the description field * Move entry for debian packages to the correct spot and update it for debian 2.0 packages (fixes Bug #3411) * Add entry for TrueType fonts to Magdir/fonts Changes for file-3.19-4 elf package * added entry for Adobe Postscript PPD files in Magdir/ppd. Changes for file-3.19-3 elf package * added entry for linux kernal images to source file Magdir/linux Changes for file-3.19-2 elf package * add MAGIC=/etc/magic to make(1) invocation * change maintainer email address Changes for file-3.19-1 elf package * added debian.* files * modified Magdir/archive to add debian-split entry to ar archives * modified magdir/elf to add more entry for core file