Bug 20604

Summary:	Word document misidentified as ole storage
Product:	shared-mime-info	Reporter:	Sebastien Bacher <seb128>
Component:	freedesktop.org.xml	Assignee:	Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	nandhp
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Sebastien Bacher 2009-03-11 09:14:24 UTC

The bug has been opened on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335081

"The application/x-msi clause in /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml is misidentifying a Word document as a Windows Installer package.

The file is correctly identified by the "file" command, though I notice the same magic string is in the /usr/share/file/magic file, but commented out due to "False positive with PPT (also currently this string is too long)".

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23157807/foo
    * Test case (26.0 KiB, application/octet-stream)

I am using Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10, fully up-to-date.

I am attaching a test case (I can't seem to create a document that demonstrates this problem, so I've blacked out the personal information from the one I discovered the bug with)

It appears that the file cannot have a ".doc" extension. I suppose the extension takes precedence over the magic."

Comment 1 Sebastien Bacher 2009-03-11 09:15:34 UTC

it seems to be identified as ole storage in the current version which is still wrong

Comment 2 Sebastien Bacher 2009-03-11 09:18:17 UTC

that's using shared-mime-info 0.60

Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2009-04-20 09:42:41 UTC

* freedesktop.org.xml.in:
* tests/foo.doc:
* tests/list: And another magic for Word documents, and a test case
(Closes: #20604)

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