Bug#884095: flag to force file types

Chris Lamb lamby at debian.org
Thu Mar 22 02:45:27 UTC 2018


Hi Hans!

> > Have we really exhausted the detection route for this? :)
>
> I think the detection route has been exhausted.  It seems that no one
> wants to do what it takes to reliably detect APKs. 

I'm sorry you think so and, with the greatest of respect, I'm not
sure this is entirely accurate... at least from my point of view.

Could you perhaps attach or otherwise link to some testcases where
diffoscope gets the detection wrong? It sounds like a fun challenge,
if nothing else..


Best wishes,

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