Description of problem: In file-libs-5.03-1.fc11, the locations of 'magic' and 'magic.mgc' are rather disorganized. The canonical location was changed to /usr/share/misc/ (according to 'man 1 file' and 'man 5 magic'), but the plain file 'magic' remains in /usr/share/file/, with a symlink from /usr/share/misc/ . That should be the other way around, like 'magic.mgc'. And the symlink /usr/share/magic should point to misc/magic, not file/magic . Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): (See above. This lousy interface keeps screwing up paste locations.) How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: (Sorry about the formatting deficiencies; this is the World's Worst Interface.) Repeat by observation: man 1 file | col -b | grep -A 2 ^FILES # the definitive word ls -l /usr/share/{file/,misc/,}magic* # current reality, # rather disorganized Actual results: (Run the commands above and observe which are plain files and which are symlinks. Trying to get that entered here is too painful.) Expected results: They should be organized as: /usr/share/misc/magic # plain file /usr/share/misc/magic.mgc # plain file with whatever symlinks needed for compatibility pointing to those. Additional info:
hello, because the recent file updates (5.02 and 5.03) contained somewhat important security fixes, I was very quick in upgrading the package. Therefore this sort of provisional arrangement occured... I'll look into it.
fixed in file-5.03-2.fc12