Bug 826898 - recognition of TeX and LaTeX files needs an improvement
Summary: recognition of TeX and LaTeX files needs an improvement
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: file
Version: 5.8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jan Kaluža
QA Contact: Jiri Jaburek
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Depends On: 675691
Blocks: 676543
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-05-31 08:35 UTC by Jiri Jaburek
Modified: 2013-04-12 20:59 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 675691
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Last Closed: 2012-06-06 09:35:00 UTC
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Comment 2 Jan Kaluža 2012-06-06 09:35:00 UTC 
After testing the proposed fix which is already applied in RHEL6, I've found out file-4.17 is too old to work properly with this change. Code which splits text and binary patterns would have to be backported and this is not something which can be done as part of fastrack for 5.9.

Without the backported code to split text and binary patterns, regressions like this one would be possible:
TeX document text, for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

After the discussion with QA and reporter, I will close this bug as WONTFIX in RHEL5.
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