[File] Suboptimal detection of various LibreOffice zip-based files
Gioele Barabucci
gioele at svario.it
Mon May 11 09:06:57 EDT 2026
Hello,
file 5.46 misdetects (or, better, suboptimally detects) some files used
or produced by LibreOffice. The following examples are taken from the
Debian package libreoffice-common [1], directory
`/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/`.
Would it be possible to extend the file command and the magic file to
detect them as separate file types?
* autotext/en-US/standard.bau: Zip data (MIME type "K"?)
Should be "LibreOffice AutoText macros" (originally "Bausteindatei").
* autocorr/acor_en-US.dat: Zip data (MIME type "K"?)
Should be "LibreOffice AutoCorrect entries"
* palette/standard.sop: Zip archive data, made by v3.0 UNIX, extract
using at least v1.0
Should be "LibreOffice drawing patterns" (originally "StarOffice Patterns")
* palette/standard.sob: Zip archive data, made by v6.3 UNIX, extract
using at least v2.0
Should be "LibreOffice background pictures" (originally "StarOffice
Bitmap" or "StarOffice Bild", probably)
(I've used "LibreOffice" here, somewhere else file uses "StarOffice".)
[1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/libreoffice-common/download
Regards,
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Gioele Barabucci
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