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."
it seems to be identified as ole storage in the current version which is still wrong
that's using shared-mime-info 0.60
* 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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