file doesn't recognise lzma archives with higher compression

Bug #1065147 reported by Ken Sharp
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file (Debian)
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file (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

$ lzma -fqqkz Hello\ world.txt ; file Hello\ world.txt.lzma ; lzma -fqqkz9 Hello\ world.txt ; file Hello\ world.txt.lzma
Hello world.txt.lzma: LZMA compressed data, streamed
Hello world.txt.lzma: data

File doesn't recognise lzma archives when -9 is used for compression.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: file 5.09-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 10 17:59:49 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: file
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Ken Sharp (kennybobs) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Ken Sharp (kennybobs) wrote :

Fixed in 5.11-2 for Quantal+.

Changed in file (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in file (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Changed in file (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
Ken Sharp (kennybobs)
Changed in file (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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