[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs file, libmagic, py_libmagic

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Tue Jun 8 20:43:15 CEST 2010


On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> No dia 8 de Junho de 2010 18:16, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> escreveu:
>
>> "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.
>

yes I do know that. still a lousy name for a library :)

okay, thanks for checking. i'll add in those lib packages at lesat.


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