[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs file, libmagic, py_libmagic

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

No dia 8 de Junho de 2010 18:16, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> escreveu:
> Oh.. Umm.. Hmm. I thought we already had that. wiierrdd......

The build file was written maybe half a year ago, but it wasn't
released.  I was also suprised that we didn't have it.

>> I could just rename it to
>> /opt/csw/bin/gfile, following our tradition.  In this batch I'm really
>> only interested in libmagic and py_libmagic.  If you don't mind
>> releases these two now, it would be great.  I can provide newer
>> CSWfile (renamed to gfile) tomorrow.
>>
>
> Mmm.. since they dont depend on anything else, I consider this....
> but the naming for those is very bad :-(
>
> "magic"? "libmagic"? yikes.
> Do linux distributions really use that upstream naming, for their own
> package names?

That's the name of the library, apparently.
For example, Debian: http://packages.debian.org/sid/libmagic1

It comes from "magic numbers" used to determine file types.

Maciej