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  1. file (4.26-2) unstable; urgency=medium
  2. * Using patch-stamp rather than patch in rules file.
  3. * Replacing obsolete dh_clean -k with dh_prep.
  4. * Adding patch from Toeroek Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> to update llvm magics
  5. (Closes: #505805).
  6. * Adding patch to add mime entries for ruby (Closes: #502201).
  7. * Adding patch from Ori Avtalion <ori@avtalion.name> to update gimp magics
  8. (Closes: #501200).
  9. * Corrected spelling of 'ScummVM' in magic-add-scummvm.dpatch.
  10. * Adding patch from Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com> to update wav
  11. magics (Closes: #508174).
  12. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:28:00 +0100
  13. file (4.26-1) unstable; urgency=low
  14. * Updating vcs fields in control file.
  15. * Merging upstream version 4.26.
  16. * Rediffing 903-file-localmagic.dpatch.
  17. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:57:00 +0200
  18. file (4.25-1) unstable; urgency=low
  19. * Adding patch from Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> to add volume label
  20. and UUID support for linux ext (Closes: #489865).
  21. * Adding patch from Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> to add volume label
  22. and UUID support for linux swap (Closes: #489865).
  23. * Adding patch from Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu> to update ocaml magics
  24. (Closes: #488992).
  25. * Removing 907-file-funcs.dpatch, went upstream.
  26. * Removing 905-file-printf.dpatch, went upstream.
  27. * Updating 903-file-localmagic.dpatch for 4.25.
  28. * Updating 901-file-mgc.dpatch for 4.25.
  29. * Updating 338-magic-add-cromfs.dpatch for 4.25.
  30. * Updating 325-magic-add-sgf.dpatch for 4.25.
  31. * Updating 321-magic-add-pe5.dpatch for 4.25.
  32. * Updating 212-magic-update-pfm.dpatch for 4.25.
  33. * Updating 211-magic-update-mono.dpatch for 4.25.
  34. * Updating 206-magic-update-bash.dpatch for 4.25.
  35. * Updating 205-magic-update-tcsh.dpatch for 4.25.
  36. * Removing 201-magic-update-mp3.dpatch, went upstream.
  37. * Merging upstream version 4.25.
  38. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:26:00 +0200
  39. file (4.24-4) unstable; urgency=high
  40. * Adding patch from Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> to add new
  41. magics for bzr (Closes: #488742).
  42. * Adding symlinks to /usr/share/misc to conform to the LSB, thanks to
  43. Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>.
  44. * Adding zlibg1-dev to libmagic-dev depends (Closes: #472856).
  45. * Adding patch to revert upstream change to stop build plain magic
  46. files. This fixes #481247 correctly now (Closes: #481247).
  47. * Reverting previous wrong NMU.
  48. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Tue, 1 Jul 2008 18:46:00 +0200
  49. file (4.24-3.1) unstable; urgency=low
  50. * Non-maintainer upload from the Cambridge BSP.
  51. * Work around bug #488562, that file assumes readdir() will return sorted
  52. names - instead of compiling magic.mgc from Magdir directly, use the logic
  53. already in debian/rules to build (the file that will become)
  54. /usr/share/file/magic, then compile magic.mgc from that. (Closes: #481247)
  55. -- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:32:24 +0000
  56. file (4.24-3) unstable; urgency=medium
  57. * Rewriting copyright file in machine-interpretable format.
  58. * Updating package to debhelper 7.
  59. * Adding patch to update pfm magic.
  60. * Adding patch to update mono magic.
  61. * Adding patch to update Digifax magic.
  62. * Adding patch to update OS/2 REXX magic.
  63. * Adding patch to update real media magic.
  64. * Adding patch to update zip magic.
  65. * Updating bash magic to also look for /usr/bin/bash.
  66. * Updating tcsh magic to also look for /usr/bin/tcsh.
  67. * Adding patch from Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> to add new magic for
  68. selinux (Closes: #485886).
  69. * Updating to standards 3.8.0.
  70. * Adding patch to add mime for asf magics (Closes: #483797).
  71. * Adding patch from Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> to add new magic for scribus.
  72. * Adding patch from Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> to update reiserfs magic also
  73. detecting ReiserFS V3.6.19.
  74. * Adding patch from Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> to add new magic for CROM
  75. filesystem.
  76. * Adding patch from Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> to update (and re-enabled)
  77. awk magic.
  78. * Adding patch from Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> to fix regressions with mp3
  79. files (Closes: #480683, #481377).
  80. * Adding patch for new TokyoCabinet database magic, thanks Benoit Sibaud
  81. <bsibaud@april.org> (Closes: #481768).
  82. * Adding patch for new QDBM Quick Database Manager magic, thanks Benoit Sibaud
  83. <bsibaud@april.org> (Closes: #481717).
  84. * Fixing regression in file 4.24 with file_printf(), thanks Martin Dorey
  85. <mdorey@bluearc.com> (Closes: #481523).
  86. * Removing annoying warnings when files can't be opened, thanks Martin Dorey
  87. <mdorey@bluearc.com> (Closes: #481512).
  88. * Adding new magic for freemind, thanks to Jamie Thompson
  89. <debian-bugs@jamie-thompson.co.uk> (Closes: #472385).
  90. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:06:00 +0200
  91. file (4.24-2) unstable; urgency=medium
  92. * Adding plain magic files for compatibility.
  93. * Using lintian debhelper to install lintian overrides.
  94. * Removing watch file.
  95. * Removing useless whitespaces in changelog file.
  96. * Adding vcs fields in control file.
  97. * Upgrading package to debhelper 6.
  98. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Sat, 3 May 2008 14:09:00 +0200
  99. file (4.24-1) experimental; urgency=low
  100. * New upstream release:
  101. - The following patches went upstream completely:
  102. 102-magic-remove-bennet, 103-magic-remove-bzip, 104-magic-remove-cgm,
  103. 105-magic-remove-com, 106-magic-remove-emf, 108-magic-remove-quicktime,
  104. 201-magic-update-avi, 203-magic-update-cow, 204-magic-update-cracklib,
  105. 206-magic-update-elf-b, 207-magic-update-elf-c, 208-magic-update-hp,
  106. 209-magic-update-jpeg, 210-magic-update-m4v, 211-magic-update-macintosh,
  107. 213-magic-update-pcp, 214-magic-update-perl, 215-magic-update-sh,
  108. 216-magic-update-spectrum, 301-magic-add-adf, 302-magic-add-apple2,
  109. 303-magic-add-arm, 304-magic-add-avg, 305-magic-add-clarion,
  110. 306-magic-add-dds, 307-magic-add-erlang, 308-magic-add-gedcom,
  111. 309-magic-add-git, 309-magic-add-inform, 310-magic-add-llvm,
  112. 311-magic-add-lua, 312-magic-add-luks, 313-magic-add-lzma,
  113. 314-magic-add-mathcad, 315-magic-add-mdi, 316-magic-add-mercurial,
  114. 317-magic-add-mozilla, 318-magic-add-nlm, and 332-magic-add-svg,
  115. 901-file-elf, 902-file-kfreebsd, and 905-file-segfault.
  116. - The following patches went upstream almost completely:
  117. 998-doc-manpages and 999-conglomeration.
  118. - Thanks to Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> to merge them.
  119. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:30:00 +0200
  120. file (4.23-2) unstable; urgency=low
  121. * Applied patch from Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> to add crossbuild
  122. support to debian/rules (Closes: #465111).
  123. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:16:00 +0100
  124. file (4.23-1) unstable; urgency=low
  125. * New upstream release:
  126. - Removing '101-magic-remove-awk.dpatch', went upstream.
  127. - Removing '107-magic-remove-msi.dpatch', went upstream.
  128. - Removing '202-magic-update-blender.dpatch', went upstream.
  129. - Removing '205-magic-update-elf-a.dpatch', went upstream.
  130. - Removing '212-magic-update-os2rexx.dpatch', went upstream.
  131. - Removing '319-magic-add-ocfs.dpatch', went upstream.
  132. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:23:00 +0100
  133. file (4.21-4) unstable; urgency=low
  134. * Bumping to new policy.
  135. * Using new homepage field in control.
  136. * Using ${binary:Version} in all depends.
  137. * Added patch from Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> to add new magic for
  138. Mozilla XUL fastload files (XUL.mfasl and XPC.mfasl; Closes: #452354).
  139. * Added patch from Seo Sanghyeon <tinuviel@sparcs.kaist.ac.kr> to add new
  140. magic for Mercurial bundles (Closes: #451067).
  141. * Correct wrong applied patch for SNES sound files (Closes: #410847).
  142. * Added patch from Mathias Brodala <info@noctus.net> to add new magic for
  143. X11 cursor files (Closes: #451246).
  144. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:09:00 +0100
  145. file (4.21-3) unstable; urgency=low
  146. * Including extra headers in /usr/include/file (Closes: #397307).
  147. * Added patch from Eduardo Sabbatella <eduardo_sabbatella@yahoo.com.ar> to
  148. add magic for SGF Smart Game Format (Closes: #428605).
  149. * Added patch from Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> to add magic for git
  150. bundles (Closes: #430070).
  151. * Added patch from Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com> to extend
  152. JPEG 2000 magic (Closes: #439005).
  153. * Added patch from Daniele Sempione <scrows@oziosi.org> to add magic for
  154. Microsoft Document Imaging Format (.mdi) (Closes: #430548).
  155. * Added patch from Nicolas Collignon <tsointsoin@gmail.com> to add magics
  156. for OpenSSH and OpenSSL certificates/key files (Closes: #439537).
  157. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:51:00 +0200
  158. file (4.21-2) unstable; urgency=low
  159. * Applied patch from Michael Casadevall <sonicmctails@gmail.com> to fix
  160. FTBFS on hurd (Closes: #433716).
  161. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:27:00 +0200
  162. file (4.21-1) unstable; urgency=low
  163. * New upstream release.
  164. * Rediffed 211-magic-update-os2rexx.dpatch.
  165. * Removed 302-magic-add-ape.dpatch, went upstream.
  166. * Rediffed 304-magic-add-arm.dpatch.
  167. * Rediffed 317-magic-add-ocfs.dpatch.
  168. * Rediffed 318-magic-add-par2.dpatch.
  169. * Rediffed 322-magic-add-scummvm.dpatch.
  170. * Rediffed 325-magic-add-subversion.dpatch.
  171. * Rediffed 326-magic-add-supercollider.dpatch.
  172. * Rediffed 328-magic-add-xen.dpatch.
  173. * Removed 999-upstream-reg-startend.dpatch, now included in upstream.
  174. * Updated 905-file-segfault.dpatch.
  175. * Rediffed 999-conglomeration.dpatch.
  176. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2007 20:29:00 +0200
  177. file (4.20-8) unstable; urgency=low
  178. * Build a python-magic-dbg package.
  179. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 17 May 2007 20:40:00 +0200
  180. file (4.20-7) unstable; urgency=medium
  181. * Replacing work around patch from Ubuntu with proper fix from
  182. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> of OpenSuse (CVE-2007-2026).
  183. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 17 May 2007 19:57:00 +0200
  184. file (4.20-6) unstable; urgency=medium
  185. * Fixed clean: target in rule (Closes: #424269).
  186. * Added patch from Anthon van der Neut <anthon@mnt.org> to add magic for LUKS
  187. (Closes: #394246).
  188. * Added patch from Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> to add magic for
  189. Power-Tab.
  190. * Added patch from Sven Anders <anders@anduras.de> to fix a segfault with -c.
  191. * Added patch from Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com> to work around regex DoS
  192. (CVE-2007-2026) by disabling the respective magic.
  193. * Added patch from Noel Torres <tecnico@ejerciciosresueltos.com> to add magic
  194. for SVG (Closes: #417331).
  195. * Added patch from Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> to add magic for
  196. Mathcad documents (Closes: #421426).
  197. * Added patch from Matthias Urlichs <smurf@debian.org> to update elf magic
  198. with missing elf architectures (Closes: #424859).
  199. * Added patch from Josef Spillner <2005@kuarepoti-dju.net> to update magic
  200. for HFS+ partition table detection (Closes: #405313).
  201. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 17 May 2007 18:15:00 +0200
  202. file (4.20-5) unstable; urgency=low
  203. * Added patch from Ralph Amissah <ralph.amissah@gmail.com> to update magic for
  204. SiSU Markup Language.
  205. * Added patch from Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> to disable magic for
  206. Bennet Yee's face format (Closes: #420855).
  207. * Updated copyright file (Closes: #398453).
  208. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:13:00 +0200
  209. file (4.20-4) unstable; urgency=low
  210. * Rediffed some patches, now having always the same format of adding new
  211. magics.
  212. * Added patch from Ralph Amissah <ralph.amissah@gmail.com> to add magic for
  213. SiSU Markup Language.
  214. * Added patch from Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> to add magic for
  215. Xen saved domains.
  216. * Added patch from Radek Vokal <rvokal@redhat.com> to add magic for
  217. Apple Emulator 2IMG format.
  218. * Added patch from Aaron Botsis <redhat@digitalmafia.org> to add magic for
  219. Oracle Clustered Filesytem.
  220. * Added patch from Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> to update pcp magics.
  221. * Added patch from Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@suse.de> to add magic for
  222. NetWare Loadable Modules (NLMs).
  223. * Added patch from Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> to add magic for
  224. Inform interactive fiction language (Closes: #394522).
  225. * Added patch to add magic for Erlang BEAM and JAM files (Closes: #388356).
  226. * Added patch from David Newgas <david@newgas.net> to add magic for
  227. AVG vault files (Closes: #381053).
  228. * Added patch from root <ap@insysnet.ru> to add magic for detecting
  229. H.264 video in AVI files (Closes: #347263).
  230. * Added patch from Seo Sanghyeon <tinuviel@sparcs.kaist.ac.kr> to update
  231. lua magic with Lua bytecode (Closes: #335036).
  232. * Added patch from Daniel van Eeden <daniel_e@dds.nl> to add magic for
  233. PAR2 archive files (Closes: #294070).
  234. * Added patch from Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org> to add magic for
  235. SuperCollider 3 Synth Definition File Format (Closes: #284803).
  236. * Added patch from Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> to add magic for
  237. Adaptive Multi-Rate Codec files (Closes: #279322).
  238. * Added patch from Phil Endecott <phil05@chezphil.org> to add magic for
  239. GEDCOME genealogical data files (Closes: #277339).
  240. * Added patch from Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>to
  241. fix wrong formating in manpage (Closes: #417511).
  242. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2007 14:25:00 +0200
  243. file (4.20-3) unstable; urgency=low
  244. * Added patch from Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> to add magic for
  245. SNES SPC700 sound files (Closes: #410847).
  246. * Added patch from Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> to add magic for the
  247. Lua scripting language (Closes: #394524).
  248. * Added patch from Nigel McNie <nigel@mcnie.name> to detect m4v files as m4v
  249. instead of mp4 (Closes: #384018).
  250. * Added patch from Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk> to update
  251. sh scripts identifier (Closes: #368613).
  252. * Added patch from Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> to add magic for the
  253. LZMA compression format (Closes: #364260).
  254. * Added patch from Simon Horman <horms@debian.org> to add magic for the
  255. Ulead Photo Explorer5 image format (Closes: #339397).
  256. * Added patch from Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> to add magic for the
  257. Monkey's audio format (Closes: #334862).
  258. * Added patch from Josh Babcock <jbabcock@atlantech.net> to updated magic for
  259. Blender (Closes: #323291).
  260. * Added patch from Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> to update magic for
  261. COW from 2.0 to 3.0 (Closes: #283515, #319128).
  262. * Added patch from Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> to add magic for the
  263. OpenRISC binary format (Closes: #316076).
  264. * Added patch from Philip Kendall <pak21@srcf.ucam.org> to update the
  265. spectrum magics (Closes: #296202).
  266. * Added patch from Al Stone <ahs3@debian.org> to add magic for the
  267. LLVM byte-codes (Closes: #293427).
  268. * Added patch from Julien Blache <jblache@debian.org> to add magic for
  269. Clarion files (Closes: #282680).
  270. * Added patch from Sven Hartge <debian@ds9.argh.org> to add magic for
  271. scummVM savegame files (Closes: #263488).
  272. * Added patch from Nicolas Chauvat <nicolas.chauvat@logilab.fr> to add magic
  273. for CGNS Advnaced Data Format files (Closes: #242644).
  274. * Added patch from Edward Betts <edward@debian.org> to add magic for
  275. pmenu (Closes: #38543).
  276. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:51:00 +0100
  277. file (4.20-2) unstable; urgency=low
  278. * New maintainer (Closes: #416263).
  279. * Redone debian directory.
  280. -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:28:00 +0100
  281. file (4.20-1) unstable; urgency=high
  282. * New upstream version
  283. - Fixes supposed vulnerability in the file_fprintf in funcs.c
  284. (closes: #415362 and justifies urgency)
  285. - MPEG ADTS signedness fixed (closes: #392009)
  286. - Better TeX/LaTeX magic (closes: #402062)
  287. - Better XML mimetype magic (closes: #345834)
  288. - More linespacing in manpage (closes: #402058)
  289. * Revert URL in copyright file (see #406820), as the old one is supposed to
  290. be correct, even if it disappeared temporarily.
  291. * Fixed typo in manpage (closes: #394514)
  292. * Make Perl script entries consistent (closes: #394523)
  293. * Disable second MS Installer entry (closes: #409895)
  294. * Disable one-byte magic for COM (closes: #393775, #339618)
  295. * audio/midi mimetype (closes: #401839)
  296. * Enable gzip mimetype magic (closes: #324889)
  297. * Disabled some QuickTime entries (ASCII words, closes: #366986, #308394)
  298. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:55:46 +0100
  299. file (4.19-1) unstable; urgency=low
  300. * New upstream version.
  301. * Use correct new URL to upstream now (closes: #406820)
  302. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:03:27 +0100
  303. file (4.17-5) unstable; urgency=high
  304. * Initialize some previously uninitialized memory, this could lead to a
  305. segmentation fault when using magic_compile in libmagic (closes: #403085)
  306. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:36:12 +0100
  307. file (4.17-4) unstable; urgency=medium
  308. * Add proper depends for python-magic (fixes not yet filed serious bug)
  309. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:01:00 +0200
  310. file (4.17-3) unstable; urgency=low
  311. * Add example /etc/magic.mime and document the fact that file only look for
  312. a magic.mime file if the base magic file exists (closes: #382057)
  313. * Remove AWK detection by regular expression testing just for ‘BEGIN:’;
  314. this caused a lot of false guesses (and problems with naughty programs
  315. reading other programs’ files), this closes: #308305, #375403 and makes
  316. others disappear (for the time being, for example, it closes: #375722)
  317. * Added Python 2.5 byte-compiled (closes: #376711)
  318. * Fix some bad MIME types (closes: #379042, thanks to Moritz Naumann)
  319. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:28:25 +0200
  320. file (4.17-2) unstable; urgency=low
  321. * Using new python infrastructure now: python2.3-magic and python2.4-magic
  322. dropped in favour of python-magic containing all versions
  323. * Identify Mono assemblies (closes: #314756)
  324. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:39:15 +0200
  325. file (4.17-1) unstable; urgency=low
  326. * New upstream (closes: #343648)
  327. * Improved over-confident 64bit-cracklib rule (closes: #343504)
  328. * Revert ELF file-reading (by Alessandro Rubini, closes: #345089)
  329. * Detect GNU/kFreeBSD binaries (by Robert Millan, closes: #307475)
  330. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:25:06 +0100
  331. file (4.15-2) unstable; urgency=low
  332. * Add Build-Depends to python, although I really don’t see the point of the
  333. python package (since file Build-Depended transitively on python2.3
  334. anyway), which claims to be a dependency package only (closes: #333859)
  335. * Disabled EMF detection as it not only caused false positives, which might
  336. have been acceptible, but a segmentation fault (closes: #333502)
  337. * Move the magic databases from /usr/share/misc/file to /usr/share/file;
  338. this still violates the FHS in letter, but not in spirit; this is
  339. different from the position in other distros (closes: #215139, #278478)
  340. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:01:54 +0200
  341. file (4.15-1) unstable; urgency=low
  342. * New upstream, closes: #305914
  343. - Maya with string version (closes: #246962)
  344. - added ESRI Shapefile format (closes: #277552)
  345. - added Adlib tunes (closes: #317192)
  346. - many more magic additions, probably closing some bugs as well
  347. - magic files can now contain regular expressions
  348. * Fix manpage typo (closes: #323539)
  349. * Mention possibly unexpected behaviour of -k in man page (closes: #259193)
  350. * ELF machine 21 can be PowerPC64 (closes: #299620)
  351. * Remove gzip/bzip2-detection for Debian packages (closes: #328623)
  352. * Updated HP 38/39/40/48/49 magic (closes: #326680)
  353. * Disabled BZIP detection (closes: #277648)
  354. * Enabled the python bindings (Martin von Löwis, closes: #325073)
  355. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Wed, 12 Oct 2005 10:35:17 +0200
  356. file (4.12-1) unstable; urgency=high
  357. * New upstream version. Closes: #283316, a potential stack smash in ELF
  358. header parsing. Urgency set to high.
  359. * /etc/magic is read, as it should (Closes: #279324)
  360. * No further changes to increase the slim chance of getting into Sarge.
  361. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:42:47 +0100
  362. file (4.10-3) unstable; urgency=high
  363. * The “for the love of Branden” release.
  364. * Urgency high in a vain attempt to get this into sarge.
  365. * Fix MIME detection for 3DS (actually, remove it because it was hilarious,
  366. closes: #216368)
  367. * Do _not_ depend on gcc-3.4
  368. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 11:14:48 +0200
  369. file (4.10-2) unstable; urgency=medium
  370. * Fix multibyte vs. byte issue in files-from (closes: #261799)
  371. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:40:53 +0200
  372. file (4.10-1) unstable; urgency=low
  373. * New upstream version.
  374. - No more doubling of file names with -z (closes: #260393)
  375. * New magic for SLL16 (closes: #249190)
  376. * New magic for SVN dumps (closes: #256652)
  377. * Patch for error return code on non-existant files
  378. (courtesy of Federico Grau, closes: #257805)
  379. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:58:40 +0200
  380. file (4.09-1) unstable; urgency=low
  381. * New upstream version. This includes almost every patch that the Debian
  382. version had, so this package is very close to upstream's.
  383. * Disable some more Apple magic (closes: #231476); curiously, most of the
  384. Apple magic is very weak.
  385. * Disable very weak Assembler magic (closes: #223328)
  386. * Disable weak AWK magic (closes: #223282)
  387. * Added DjVu magic (closes: #238570)
  388. * Removed erroneous 5th column in magic.mime (closes: #246428)
  389. * Better error report messages in two places (closes: #243446, #252951)
  390. * Use /etc/magic again (failed to touch Makefile.in, closes: #231306)
  391. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:35:30 +0200
  392. file (4.07-2) unstable; urgency=low
  393. * Move the "debian-additions" magic file back in; it got lost
  394. * Move up "compress" in the list to test for gzip before FLI; this
  395. closes: #228391 - but what happens if I have a real FLI file that
  396. starts with the two gzip magic bytes?
  397. * Replace the really bad magic for MP3 in magic.mime with the one found
  398. in "animation" (closes: #227625)
  399. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:57:47 +0100
  400. file (4.07-1) unstable; urgency=low
  401. * New upstream
  402. * do not loop endlessly when encountering zero-length section offsets in ELF
  403. headers (closes: #226289)
  404. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:54:32 +0100
  405. file (4.06-2) unstable; urgency=low
  406. * Unified HTML detection for normal and mime; handles the main complaint of
  407. #223340, but not all of it.
  408. * Added Hangul Word Processor File (closes: #219867)
  409. * Added Outlook personal folder (closes: #183764)
  410. * Added Mobipocket e-book (closes: #222855)
  411. * Added BIOS ROM dumps (closes: #150880)
  412. * Added some Doom and Quake (closes: #135671)
  413. * Added Sun/Cobalt boot ROMs (closes: #216867)
  414. * Made VMware magic more robust and (hopefully) correct (closes: #219037);
  415. file used to report nothing at all, due to an empty description string and
  416. heavy reliance on the subtype (which didn't match)
  417. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:25:34 +0100
  418. file (4.06-1) unstable; urgency=low
  419. * New upstream.
  420. - Return error for non-existant files (closes: #215801)
  421. - Adds BitTorrent (closes: #201301)
  422. * Fix minor AAC typo (closes: #215052)
  423. * More QuickTime subformats (closes: #198809)
  424. * Rearrange Flac detection (closes: #213693)
  425. * Improved CAB detection (closes: #208926, #205431)
  426. * Added Netscape Bookmarks (closes: #207344)
  427. * Added DACT (closes: #195882)
  428. * Added GCC precompiled headers (closes: #204304)
  429. * Added GEOS (closes: #162852)
  430. * Added HVQM4 (Still counting, Mark? Closes: #151138)
  431. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:40:54 +0200
  432. file (4.04-1) unstable; urgency=low
  433. * New upstream
  434. * add MAXPATHLEN to apprentice.c in order to make it build on the
  435. Hurd (closes: #212215)
  436. * add TFMX (closes: #151217, as the rest was already there)
  437. * recognize PO files (closes: #138423)
  438. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:06:48 +0200
  439. file (4.03-3) unstable; urgency=low
  440. * more and better magic:
  441. - added Python 2.3 byte-compiled
  442. - corrected magic for HFS+ (closes: #207576)
  443. - fixed XML magic and added to MIME magic (closes: #186613)
  444. - added Xbox magic (closes: #183432)
  445. - remove ", English" from MIME type output (closes: #160415)
  446. - remove the vain attempts to guess the size of JPEG files as they are
  447. either wrong or confusing (sort of closes: #74938, #153833, #198053)
  448. - add Gnumeric magic to both normal and MIME magic; note you still have to
  449. pass -z to file (closes: #205708, #206756)
  450. - remove compresse MIME types (related to #170981)
  451. - add ACE archiver (closes: #178807)
  452. * add more descriptive message for unreadable files (closes: #203168)
  453. * rearranges header inclusions so that configuration is the same in all
  454. compiled files (closes: #208785)
  455. * fix the long-standing crash-on-compressed bug (closes: #197442, #207458)
  456. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:59:54 +0200
  457. file (4.03-2) unstable; urgency=low
  458. * Compressed Flash (closes: #179640), also for MIME (closes: #186946)
  459. * Added GPG (closes: #197646) and JFFS2 (closes: #188780);
  460. accidentally also closes: #203158 (debian-additions not empty anymore)
  461. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:28:39 +0200
  462. file (4.03-1) unstable; urgency=low
  463. * New upstream
  464. - fixes Zsh bug (closes: #195583, #196163)
  465. - incorporates many Debian changes to magic entries
  466. - also closes: #196162 (no more Broken HTML)
  467. * Reformatted ancient changelog entries and made sure changelog
  468. is in UTF-8.
  469. * File depends on correct library version now (closes: #194697)
  470. * Recognizes more Magic Cookies (closes: #201301)
  471. * Dynamically updates libtool (closes: #195330)
  472. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jul 2003 23:39:15 +0200
  473. file (4.02-4) unstable; urgency=low
  474. * The "no closes:" release.
  475. * Removed one last artifact of the raw-magic option.
  476. * Adapt the very-short-file fix to the new environment.
  477. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Sat, 17 May 2003 20:01:17 +0200
  478. file (4.02-3) unstable; urgency=low
  479. * Remove the nomgc symbol from the library (closes: #193355); this kind of
  480. reopens #115573, but I am now sure that this is not a bug, document the
  481. behaviour instead.
  482. * Make HTML magic a little less picky (closes: #193296)
  483. * Close files after looking at them (closes: #193580)
  484. * Don't report bogus for unreadable files (closes: #193582)
  485. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Sat, 17 May 2003 18:01:27 +0200
  486. file (4.02-2) unstable; urgency=low
  487. * Changed Priority of libmagic-dev to optional (closes: #193254)
  488. * Add Conflicts of libmagic1 to older file (closes: #193236, #193238)
  489. * Use newer libtool (closes: #193152)
  490. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 2003 13:47:47 +0200
  491. file (4.02-1) unstable; urgency=low
  492. * New upstream version
  493. * Acknowledge NMU, closes: #184204
  494. * Description length limit is down to 64 again. The easy way, setting it in
  495. file.h, doesn't work anymore, and I've not yet found out why.
  496. * Upstream has made a library out of the magic number recognition routines.
  497. Consequently, split the package up into three binary packages, adding
  498. libmagic1 and libmagic-dev.
  499. * debian/rules: all new and shiny; better autotools supprt
  500. * add some more magic:
  501. - TI emulators skins (closes: #167267)
  502. - Objective Caml (closes: #166830)
  503. - ReBorn (closes: #156279)
  504. - SE Linux policy database (closes: #159283)
  505. - Flow Cytometry Standard (closes: #160984)
  506. * remove some magic:
  507. - Brian Postma's Soundmon Module (closes: #168661)
  508. - LILO (closes: #160602)
  509. * fixed some magic:
  510. - XWD X Window Dump (closes: #164047, #81771)
  511. * fix reference to magic man page in README (closes: #159992)
  512. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Sun, 11 May 2003 20:15:20 +0200
  513. file (3.40-1.1) unstable; urgency=high
  514. * [readelf.c] Apply patch from upstream version 3.41 to fix buffer overflow
  515. - CAN-2003-0102
  516. - http://www.idefense.com/advisory/03.04.03.txt
  517. - Closes: #184204
  518. -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:50:22 -0500
  519. file (3.40-1) unstable; urgency=low
  520. * New upstream version (closes... no, this time I'm faster)
  521. * Switched Maintainer and Uploaders field, thereby effectively taken over
  522. the package after not having heard of the previous maintainer for about
  523. a year (finally officially closes: #174338, which is already closed)
  524. * No more whitespace on first line of debian/rules (closes: #164651)
  525. * It seems this already was fixed, but using an addition to the additional
  526. StuffIt magic now (closes: #170893)
  527. * Added VRML (closes: #166955)
  528. * Corrected unknown groff character names in magic(5) manpage (closes: #180056)
  529. * Update TI Calculator Magic (closes: #162820)
  530. * Make the ELF string extraction a little more robust (closes: #166832)
  531. * Recognizes HTML even with whitespace (closes: #119193)
  532. * Do not hang on rapidly growing archives with -z (closes: #162896)
  533. * Remove CVS date from Ogg output, it is not very useful as version number
  534. is printed anyway, and may cause trouble as it is not a real string, thus
  535. breaking the output routine for LANG!=C (closes: #178479)
  536. * Fix alignment of multifile output and wide characters
  537. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Sun, 16 Feb 2003 17:31:21 +0100
  538. file (3.39-1) unstable; urgency=low
  539. * NMU
  540. * New upstream version (closes: #148212, #151907)
  541. - incorporates most Debian patches
  542. - adds 9660 filesystem magic (closes: #157050; Upstream has
  543. a different magic than reporter.)
  544. - adds MNG magic (closes: #147264, see below)
  545. - adds PHP magic (closes: #145929)
  546. - detects UTF-8 and UTF-16 with BOM (closes: #102076)
  547. - some short string magic commented out (closes: #134266)
  548. * New Debian patches
  549. - improved Linux kernel magic, make it like lilo (closes: #106898)
  550. - changed BMP MIME type to x-ms-bmp (closes: #124234)
  551. - added JNG magic (closes: #147264)
  552. - added alternate ZIP magic (closes: #56292)
  553. - added alternate StuffIt magic (closes: #114027)
  554. - added/changed magic for Screamtracker (closes: #60009)
  555. - added vCalendar magic (closes: #158338)
  556. - added ZX spectrum magic (closes: #157162)
  557. - added EST flat binary (closes: #139239), Aculab VoIP firmware
  558. (closes: #138967), PPCBoot image (closes: #138958); thank you, Mark
  559. - tried some magic for multiple master fonts (closes: #29685)
  560. - removed some Mac magic (closes: #113733); this is not the
  561. real fix (TM), but works for the particular problem
  562. - removed some two-byte ASCII magic - too simple (closes: #144398)
  563. - fixed some entries extracting strings (changed \n to \0)
  564. - added new command line option -M which ignores compiled databases
  565. (closes: #115573)
  566. - give warning for one-byte files (magic is at least two bytes long,
  567. closes: #95778, #117222)
  568. * Move Debian magic additions all together in one spot to facilitate
  569. patching and communication with upstream
  570. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Sun, 01 Sep 2002 13:13:15 +0200
  571. file (3.37-3.1) unstable; urgency=low
  572. * NMU
  573. * Removed regexp.patch and kleff, they didn't serve a purpose
  574. * Bumped standards-version to 3.5.
  575. * Added Kimwitu magic
  576. * Improved MS Office magic (closes: #116693, #54960)
  577. * Added XV thumb, ISDN vbox, KiSS (closes: #54391)
  578. * Emacs 19 improved upstream (closes: #101336)
  579. * Added long HtmlHelp magic (closes: #113876)
  580. * Added webshots desktop (closes: #118517)
  581. * Added newer Python magic (closes: #119572)
  582. * Ogg magic improved upstream (closes: #91858)
  583. * XFS cleaned up (closes: #129172)
  584. * Targa reports size (closes: #133024)
  585. * Documented arbitrary 50 character description limit and increased it
  586. to 80 characters (closes: #12415) - the patch for unlimited length
  587. doesn't work, at least not at advertised.
  588. * Added Atari MSA (closes: #95040)
  589. * TI-8x updated (closes: #102824)
  590. * Better Swap (closes: #105504)
  591. * Increased buffer size to 96K (closes: #105505)
  592. * Better CRAMFS (closes: #115575)
  593. * Added JFFS (closes: #118900)
  594. * Added Hercules DASD image magic (closes: #122326)
  595. * Added TDB magic (closes: #122328)
  596. * Added Matlab (closes: #125666)
  597. * Added Squeak images and (closes: #131627)
  598. * Added User Mode COW magic (closes: #134619)
  599. * Added even better Ogg magic and even include it (closes: #134663)
  600. -- Michael Piefel <piefel@debian.org> Mon, 04 Mar 2002 19:47:32 +0100
  601. file (3.37-3) unstable; urgency=low
  602. * Implemented internal gzip support through the zlib library. It's much
  603. faster than executing gzip and it works better. Many small files that
  604. weren't properly handled now are. I've tested this with over 400 random
  605. gzipped files and it works, but please, report any problem with this.
  606. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Sun, 14 Oct 2001 05:56:19 -0300
  607. file (3.37-2) unstable; urgency=low
  608. * The new sread function was sooo broken... I have now enhanced
  609. it with the amazing capability of handling EOF. Now file -z
  610. shouldn't hang (closes:Bug#115156).
  611. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Thu, 11 Oct 2001 03:10:10 -0300
  612. file (3.37-1) unstable; urgency=low
  613. * New upstream release:
  614. * Recognizes mp3 files with IDv2 tags (closes:Bug#112829, Bug#96688).
  615. * Adds magic for RRDtool databases (closes:Bug#114372).
  616. * Weak magic for AppleWorks spreadsheet data was removed
  617. (closes:Bug#110451,Bug#98447).
  618. * Remove warning for not using a compiled magic version for /etc/magic.
  619. I won't try to implement something to create a compiled version of
  620. /etc/magic as: 1) This fle is empty by default and will have only a few
  621. manually added entries, so there wouldn't be any speed gain; 2) It will
  622. add complexity and it wouldn't be trivial.
  623. * Added a note in magic2mime(1) deprecating its use.
  624. * No longer recognizes sunclock's "vector map format" as PostScript
  625. (closes:Bug#105930).
  626. * Added magic for cramfs and reiserfs from russell@coker.com.au
  627. (closes:Bug#105485, Bug#105508).
  628. * Added two Palm file formats from
  629. John Gruenenfelder <johng@bach.as.arizona.edu> (closes:Bug#104034).
  630. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Mon, 8 Oct 2001 19:49:42 -0300
  631. file (3.33-5) unstable; urgency=low
  632. * Added "Build-Depends: debhelper" (closes:Bug#86829).
  633. * New magic for S/390 ELF binaries (closes:Bug#93491).
  634. * Added support for large files (closes:Bug#93402).
  635. * Fixed magic2mime to cope with the new charset detection
  636. (closes:Bug#92931).
  637. * Added -s option to short usage message (-h) (closes:Bug#85910).
  638. * Added magic for Paint Shop Pro from
  639. Telford Tendys <telford@triode.net.au> (closes:Bug#85359).
  640. * Removed minor PS version number from font detection magic,
  641. suggested by Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard@kammer.uni-hannover.de>
  642. (closes:Bug#82667).
  643. * Added magic for Flac audio (what's that? =) ) from
  644. Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> (closes:Bug#91857).
  645. * Added magic for newer LHA files (does someone still use lha? wow!)
  646. from Paul Martin <pm@nowster.zetnet.co.uk> (closes:Bug#83454).
  647. * Now shows which compressor a Debian package uses,
  648. contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> (closes:Bug#48389).
  649. * Removed creation date report from Debian magic, it no longer works.
  650. It seems that the gzipped members of the .deb file are no longer
  651. created with the proper date.
  652. * Added lots of Palm documents contributed by
  653. Michael-John Turner <mj@debian.org> (but replaced "document" with
  654. "PalmOS document") (closes:Bug#87759).
  655. * Added magic for Squish and JAM echomail/netmail Fidonet areas storage
  656. formats contributed by peter@softwolves.pp.se (closes:Bug#90172).
  657. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Sun, 6 May 2001 02:13:10 -0300
  658. file (3.33-4) unstable; urgency=low
  659. * Modified Newton PDA package format magic so it doesn't match
  660. Java source code files.
  661. * When using -z, don't write the NUL terminator to the uncompressing
  662. program.
  663. * Ignore output from gzip (gzip should have an option to disable the
  664. "unexpected end of file" error message) (closes:Bug#83317).
  665. * Minor updates to debian/rules.
  666. * Reordered description for MIPS object files to please weak parsing
  667. in libtool (closes:Bug#83303).
  668. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:03 -0300
  669. file (3.33-3) unstable; urgency=low
  670. * Code for detecting if an input stream is seekable assumed that lseek
  671. returns 0 on success, which is untrue, and file was copying every ELF
  672. file probed to a temporary file. Fixed (closes:Bug#82261).
  673. Found by Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>.
  674. * Uses -g only if debug is in the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS variable.
  675. * Updated standards-version to 3.2.1.
  676. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 02:26:35 -0300
  677. file (3.33-2) unstable; urgency=low
  678. * Added ELF magic for IBM AS/390 mainframe (closes:Bug#79575).
  679. * Fix from Adam Heat for very small .gz files and -z, I've also
  680. added NUL termination of the uncompressed buffer
  681. (closes:Bug#16837,Bug#36724,Bug#37838).
  682. * If the file is ELF and is not seekable, `file' will now copy
  683. it to a temporary file because the ELF code needs to fseek
  684. everywhere in the file. The idea was from Adam Heath <adam@doogie.org>.
  685. (closes:Bug#28964,Bug#70629).
  686. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:38:58 -0300
  687. file (3.33-1) unstable; urgency=low
  688. * New upstream release (closes:Bug#67970). Fixes:
  689. * Recognizes Berkeley DB files (closes:Bug#18821).
  690. * Tries to recognize EBCDIC encoded files (closes:Bug#31949).
  691. * lif files recognized in LE systems (closes:Bug#78261).
  692. * Contributions from Wolfram Kleff (closes:Bug#56667).
  693. * Changed pgp armored data to pgp armored *text*.
  694. * Added GEM image and metafile from.
  695. * Added Vivo video format.
  696. * Added STAD packed image.
  697. * Added AFX compressed files.
  698. * Added GFA-BASIC 3 data.
  699. * Added ICE and X11 authority data.
  700. * Added magic for DJGPP compiled files from Robert vd Boon
  701. (closes:Bug#70600).
  702. * Changed file for data here and there (closes:Bug#35851).
  703. * Added Sketch document (closes:Bug#67511).
  704. * Added SMJPEG (image format used in games) (closes:Bug#62224).
  705. * Added magic for Sony PlayStation executables (closes:Bug#31310).
  706. * Added other way of detecting perl scripts (closes:Bug#45426).
  707. * Fixed detection of MP3 files with the new -i option.
  708. * Adapted Debian patch to include long-options alternatives for the
  709. new -k and -i options. Updated the manpage.
  710. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Sun, 10 Dec 2000 19:02:07 -0300
  711. file (3.28-1) unstable; urgency=low
  712. * New upstream release. Fixes:
  713. * A serious attempt to detect JPEG is done now, but the
  714. format seems to be not very magic friendly (closes:Bug#31950).
  715. * DB2 magic added (closes:Bug#19097).
  716. * Added another case combination for the detection of HTML files
  717. (closes:Bug#45326).
  718. * Improved newly added xml detection (eg: added XSL stylesheets detection).
  719. * Some magic files weren't being included, modified Makefile.am.
  720. The files now included are jpeg, grace, mcrypt, palm and spectrum.
  721. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:58:01 -0300
  722. file (3.27-7) unstable; urgency=low
  723. * Added entry for recently announced new LSM file format.
  724. * Removed README.Debian and folded it into the copyright file
  725. (closes:Bug#53069).
  726. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Fri, 24 Dec 1999 20:23:48 -0300
  727. file (3.27-6) unstable; urgency=low
  728. * Applied patch with improvements to magi2mime
  729. from J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <ray@cistron.nl> (closes:Bug#51399).
  730. * Added some Windows magic from Pavel Machek <pavel@bug.ucw.cz>
  731. (closes:Bug#31023).
  732. * Added magic for PCX, Adobe's PSD, MS Word, and replaced
  733. magic for kernel detection with contributions from
  734. Wolfram Kleff <kleff@cs.uni-bonn.de> (closes:Bug#46781).
  735. * Added magic for Linux kernel System.map files.
  736. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Sun, 12 Dec 1999 17:09:08 -0300
  737. file (3.27-5) unstable; urgency=low
  738. * Put docs and manpages under /usr/share.
  739. * Updated `Standards-Version' to 3.1.0.
  740. * Added contributed magic for `Smith Corona Personal Word Processors'
  741. (closes:Bug#45704).
  742. * Added magic for X-Post-it (closes:Bug#43031).
  743. * Improved detection of MS-DOS batch files a bit (closes:Bug#50205).
  744. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Mon, 15 Nov 1999 01:09:13 -0300
  745. file (3.27-4) unstable; urgency=low
  746. * It was not reading /etc/magic.
  747. * Updated manpage to say that local magic entries are read from
  748. and should be written to /etc/magic.
  749. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 1999 19:40:17 -0300
  750. file (3.27-3) unstable; urgency=low
  751. * Added detection of SIDPlay audio files (closes: Bug#35564, Bug#35483).
  752. * Added "#include <errno.h>" to compress.c (closes: Bug#37705).
  753. * Fixed tiny typos in README (closes: Bug#38877).
  754. * Added magic for Atari ST executables from Wolfram Kleff
  755. <kleff@cs.uni-bonn.de>.
  756. * Added formats for some communications standards contributed by
  757. W. Borgert <debacle@debian.org> (closes: Bug#34542, Bug#34779).
  758. * Removed detection of format `Fasttracker "oktalyzer" module sound data'.
  759. It was just 2 bytes at offset 0 and generated false positives
  760. (closes: Bug#36704).
  761. * Added detection of MPEG audio level 2.5 and improved messages for level
  762. 3 (mp3) contributed by Wolfram Kleff <kleff@cs.uni-bonn.de>
  763. (closes: Bug#40733).
  764. * Added audio/midi to magic2mime.
  765. * Readded magic2mime to package. It was removed by mistake.
  766. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 1999 03:11:45 -0300
  767. file (3.27-2) unstable; urgency=low
  768. * Removed detection of unstriped binaries. Patch from
  769. Sean Perry <shaleh@debian.org>. Fixes bugs #38407, #38417, 38419.
  770. * Added detection of NITF files from jrv@vanzandt.mv.com.
  771. Fixes bug #38452.
  772. * No longer includes Localstuff in /usr/share/misc/magic. Local
  773. definitions should go to /etc/magic.
  774. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Fri, 28 May 1999 00:39:32 -0300
  775. file (3.27-1) unstable; urgency=low
  776. * New upstream release. Fixes bugs #36786, #30692,
  777. #29353 (added shockwave/flash files).
  778. * Removed detection of "OS/2 URL objects": too general.
  779. * Truncates \n on output. file's outputs MUST be one line per file.
  780. Fixes bugs #34439, #34290, #35222, #32305, #32302, #30875.
  781. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 21:50:13 -0300
  782. file (3.26-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
  783. * Moved x86 boot sector detection after linux kernel detection.
  784. Fixes bug #24185.
  785. * Added kernel version extraction for newer kernels.
  786. * Removed `,' from GIF description's end.
  787. * Changed version shown to 3.26-Debian, as this version is different from
  788. upstream.
  789. * Added manpage for magic2mime.
  790. * Added more mime types for magic2mime and some fixes for the script.
  791. * Switched to debhelper.
  792. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:08:24 -0300
  793. file (3.26-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
  794. * New upstream release. Upstream author included many Debian enhancements
  795. and added some minor fixes. Fixes bug #30692. Bug #30875 was fixed in
  796. previous NMU.
  797. * Fixed autoconf use.
  798. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jan 1999 03:15:45 +0000
  799. file (3.24-4.2) frozen unstable; urgency=HIGH
  800. * NMU:
  801. Fix critical bugs #31031 and #31057.
  802. -- Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com> Wed, 6 Jan 1999 01:51:15 +0100
  803. file (3.24-4.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
  804. * Non-maintainer release.
  805. * Add patch so "\n"-style escapes work (closes:Bug#22854).
  806. -- Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org> Sun, 13 Dec 1998 16:44:18 -0800
  807. file (3.24-4) frozen unstable; urgency=low
  808. * Added `-f' to an rm that might obstaculize automatic builds,
  809. fixes bug #19970.
  810. * Removed very old Debian package detection that caused files starting
  811. with 0.9 to show no description at all, fixes bugs #19657 and #19677.
  812. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar> Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:18:34 -0300
  813. file (3.24-3) unstable; urgency=low
  814. * Small fix in online help.
  815. * Changed `Standards-version' to 2.4.0.0 (no changes required).
  816. * Moved /usr/share/magic to /usr/share/misc/magic, fixes bug #18639.
  817. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 14:28:45 -0300
  818. file (3.24-2) unstable; urgency=low
  819. * Fixed upstream completely broken configure.in (wasn't showing special
  820. files major & minor numbers).
  821. * Included upsstream magic2mime in the binary package.
  822. * Added more HTML tokns to names.h.
  823. * Added lzop compressd files definition, contributed
  824. by Paolo Molaro <lupus@lettere.unipd.it>.
  825. * Moved magic data to /usr/share/magic (not a conffile). /etc/magic will
  826. be used for local magic definitions.
  827. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar> Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:21:59 -0300
  828. file (3.24-1) unstable; urgency=low
  829. * names.h: Added HTML.
  830. * New upstream release.
  831. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar> Sat, 21 Feb 1998 00:47:11 -0300
  832. file (3.23-1) unstable; urgency=low
  833. * Added long version for the new option `-b' (`--brief'). Added long
  834. option to manpage. Added the option to the usge message (`--help').
  835. * Added GNU message catalog magic, contributed
  836. by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>, fixes bug #14743.
  837. * Removed duplcated entry for romfs, fixes bug #13977.
  838. * New upstream release, fixes bug #17830.
  839. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar> Thu, 19 Feb 1998 00:12:32 -0300
  840. file (3.20.1-8) unstable; urgency=low
  841. * Added magic for Octave contributed
  842. by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@rosebud.sps.queensu.ca>
  843. * names.h: Added detectionn of Java source code.
  844. * softmagic.c: When converting endianness only swap bytes if needed.
  845. * Use %m instead of strerr.
  846. * Added magic for WordPerfect files, contributed
  847. by Scott K. Ellis <ellis@charon.valueweb.net>.
  848. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 17:22:27 -0300
  849. file (3.20.1-7) unstable; urgency=low
  850. * Changed maintainer address.
  851. * Added filesystems and Linux86 magic, contributed
  852. by Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>, fixes #13279.
  853. * Keep files' date.
  854. * Added GIMP file formats, contributed
  855. by Kenneth MacDonald <kenny@ed.ac.uk>.
  856. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.net.ar> Wed, 9 Jul 1997 00:22:38 -0300
  857. file (3.20.1-6) unstable; urgency=low
  858. * Minor changes to debian/rules.
  859. * Modified manpage.
  860. * Added `--help' option.
  861. * Added magic data for vgetty voice formats (thanks to
  862. David Engel <david@sw.ods.com>).
  863. * Arguments to a printf casted to long long, fixes #10779.
  864. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar> Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:21:58 -0300
  865. file (3.20.1-5) unstable; urgency=low
  866. * Added Linux kernel boot image version detection for new kernels.
  867. * Removed `-Wall' warnings.
  868. * Added "DEC SRC Virtual Paper: Lectern files" type,
  869. contributed by Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@inetarena.com>.
  870. * Removed useless RCS ids.
  871. * Corrected compilation flags.
  872. * Don't try to keep file modification time, it changed file status change
  873. time. And it's more natural a change in access time than in file status
  874. change time. Fixes bug #7920.
  875. * Minor fix to manpage.
  876. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar> Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:55:49 -0300
  877. file (3.20.1-4) unstable; urgency=low
  878. * Built with libc6.
  879. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar> Wed, 18 Jun 1997 00:09:58 -0300
  880. file (3.20.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
  881. * Removed information about who created the /etc/magic file.
  882. * Removed creation date from /etc/magic. This changed the md5sum of this
  883. conffile every release.
  884. * Man page updated.
  885. * Added long options support.
  886. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar> Tue, 11 Mar 1997 15:19:43 -0300
  887. file (3.20.1-2) unstable; urgency=low
  888. * Improved MS applications' docuemts detection (#4473).
  889. * Added Steve McIntyre's contributed formats (#6735).
  890. * New upstream release has fixed bugs #5777 #5838 and #6656 . All
  891. reporting that file didn't detect Java's .class.
  892. * My name is Nicolás. Fixes #7238 (!).
  893. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar> Wed, 12 Feb 1997 02:53:42 -0300
  894. file (3.20.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
  895. * Added LSM files detection.
  896. * Clarified header of /etc/magic.
  897. * Added detection of creation time for .deb's.
  898. * Added detection of 2.1.x kernels.
  899. * Upstream fix to handle \n in arguments to string format broke
  900. description that expected \n to end the string. Changed file
  901. to discard \n's and following text at print time.
  902. * Upstream changelog included.
  903. * New upstream release
  904. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar> Sun, 9 Feb 1997 23:41:39 -0300
  905. file (3.19-7) unstable; urgency=low
  906. * Corrected section in control file.
  907. * New maintainer.
  908. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar> Sun, 9 Feb 1997 21:49:19 -0300
  909. file (3.19-6) unstable; urgency=low
  910. * Added detection of pcap data files (like used by tcpdump) Peter Tobias
  911. <tobias@et-inf.fho-emden.de>
  912. * Removed signal detection from core files. Doesn't work for ELF binaries
  913. Peter Tobias <tobias@et-inf.fho-emden.de>.
  914. * Changed to new source format.
  915. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar> Mon, 3 Feb 1997 20:11:00 -0300
  916. file (3.19-5)
  917. * Change of maintainer and updated for multi-architecture build (fixes Bug #3332)
  918. * Un-right-justified the description field
  919. * Move entry for debian packages to the correct spot and update it for debian 2.0 packages (fixes Bug #3411)
  920. * Add entry for TrueType fonts to Magdir/fonts
  921. -- Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>, Mon Jul 8 23:07:21 1996
  922. file (3.19-4)
  923. * added entry for Adobe Postscript PPD files in Magdir/ppd.
  924. file (3.19-3)
  925. * added entry for linux kernal images to source file Magdir/linux
  926. file (3.19-2)
  927. * add MAGIC=/etc/magic to make(1) invocation
  928. * change maintainer email address
  929. file (3.19-1)
  930. * added debian.* files
  931. * modified Magdir/archive to add debian-split entry to ar archives
  932. * modified magdir/elf to add more entry for core file