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  1. Bug #2003709
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Comment 1 for bug 2003709

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Lucas Kanashiro (lucaskanashiro) wrote :

Thanks for reporting this bug and trying to make Ubuntu better.

I tried to reproduce what you described in a Ubuntu Jammy container:

root@apache2-jammy:~# dpkg -l apache2
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-=================-============-============================>
ii apache2 2.4.52-1ubuntu4.2 amd64 Apache HTTP Server
root@apache2-jammy:~# cat /tmp/foo
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
blah blah
root@apache2-jammy:~# file -m /etc/apache2/magic /tmp/foo
/etc/apache2/magic, 187: Warning: string modifier `B' invalid
/etc/apache2/magic, 402: Warning: string modifier `B' invalid
/etc/apache2/magic, 619: Warning: string modifier `B' invalid
/etc/apache2/magic, 624: Warning: string modifier `B' invalid
/etc/apache2/magic, 628: Warning: string modifier `B' invalid
/etc/apache2/magic, 629: Warning: string modifier `B' invalid
file: could not find any valid magic files!
root@apache2-jammy:~# wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/magic
--2023-01-24 20:29:34-- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/magic
Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 185.199.108.133, 185.199.109.133, 185.199.110.133, ...
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|185.199.108.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 13064 (13K) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘magic’

magic 100%[==================>] 12.76K --.-KB/s in 0.001s

2023-01-24 20:29:35 (9.45 MB/s) - ‘magic’ saved [13064/13064]

root@apache2-jammy:~# file -m ./magic /tmp/foo
/tmp/foo: text/html

The file shipped in the Ubuntu package diverges from the upstream one. This requires extra investigation to understand why this was done. Adding this bug to our backlog.