file -i (mime type) has bug ?

[J. T. Farmer]

Dan Nelson wrote:

>In the last episode (Sep 08), Andriy Gapon said:
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>
>>on 08.09.2005 19:29 Dan Nelson said the following:
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>>>-i uses the magic.mime file instead of the standard magic file, and
>>>there are no entries for RISC executables in there.
>>>      
>>>
>>Oh I see, completely different database.
>>BTW who is in charge of this file - freebsd or some 3rd party (GNU?)
>>from which we take file as contrib ?
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>/usr/src/contrib/file/FREEBSD-upgrade says the original source is at
>ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/ .  We are at 4.10; the latest version is
>4.15.
>

Is there someone responsible for tracking this and importing newer versions?

John

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