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Story: Fixing OpenDocument MIME magic on LinuxTotal Replies: 7
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tuxchick

Jun 28, 2009
5:10 PM EDT 		Nice bit of debugging, Sander, and a fix! Well done.
Sander_Marechal

Jun 28, 2009
5:33 PM EDT 		Thanks. It has been reported to Debian as well of course: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525979
Bob_Robertson

Jun 28, 2009
7:20 PM EDT 		As a Debian user, Thank You.
Sander_Marechal

Jun 29, 2009
4:53 AM EDT 		I have updated the article with a patch against the original, upstream file-5.0.3 which had the same problem. That should be useful for those of you who don't use Debian.

Patch here: http://www.jejik.com/files/examples/file-5.0.3-opendocument....
Sander_Marechal

Jul 01, 2009
10:20 AM EDT 		I just got mail that the patch has been committed to the upstream file package. So, it should appear in a new distro near you soon :-)

http://mx.gw.com/pipermail/file/2009/000399.html
tuxchick

Jul 01, 2009
2:10 PM EDT 		Wow, that was fast. I make myself a root beer float in your honor :)
gus3

Jul 01, 2009
2:23 PM EDT 		*POOF* you're a root beer? How did you do that?

And can you still type?
tuxchick

Jul 01, 2009
3:10 PM EDT 		Duh. Multi-talented Renaissance root beer.

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