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shared-mime-info package

  1. Bug #1639531
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1639531

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In , David Faure (faure) wrote :

Well we need a way to find out that /bin/ls is an executable, and there's no extension, so working magic would be useful ;)

However I don't know anything about the ELF file format, so I don't know what the problem actually is (and whether it offers reliable magic).

Admittedly the magic for x-sharedlib is the one that's much less useful, shared libs are typically called *.so or *.so.[0-9\.]* :-)
But I wouldn't dare just removing all magic from x-sharedlib... unless someone can prove that the ELF file format makes no actual difference between shared libs and executables?