Comment 3 for bug 248619

This was fixed in version 5.01-1 in Debian; I've confirmed that Karmic no longer suffers from this bug.

file (5.01-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Adding patch from Adam Buchbinder <email address hidden> to
    fix false matches against Z-machine pattern (Closes: #499748).
  * Adding patch from Adam Buchbinder <email address hidden> to
    improve XWD magic in order to not give false results on mp3 files
    (Closes: #511764).
  * Adding patch from Adam Buchbinder <email address hidden> to fix
    unescaped spaces in erlang magic (Closes: #514056).
  * Updating UUID patches to cope with leading zeroes, thanks to Bjorn
    Mork <email address hidden> (Closes: #515019).
  * Updating section for python-magic-dbg.
  * Adding patch from Adam Buchbinder <email address hidden> to fix
    a spacing error in the manpage (Closes: #515761).
  * Adding patch from Adam Buchbinder <email address hidden> to
    updated utf-8 big-endian magic (Closes: #513526).
  * Adding patch from Adam Buchbinder <email address hidden> to add
    new magic for git packs and indexes (Closes: #509942).
  * Adding patch from Adam Buchbinder <email address hidden> to
    update magic for spectrum tap files (Closes: #501589).
  * Merging upstream version 5.01.
  * Removing magic-update-erlang.patch, went upstream.
  * Rediffing magic-add-qdbm.patch.
  * Rediffing magic-add-tokyocabinet.patch.
  * Manually renaming magic directory in rules to correct name.
  * Updating file-mgc.patch for file 5, produces raw magics again now
    (Closes: #522433).

 -- Daniel Baumann <email address hidden> Sun, 03 May 2009 11:02:00 +0200