[Bug 1741128] Re: libmagic1 in 16.04 reports XLS files as application/CDFV2-unknown

[Ben Johnson]

This bug was fixed upstream almost a year ago. It would be nice to see
this addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, which is still on libmagic1 version
5.25.

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Title:
  libmagic1 in 16.04 reports XLS files as application/CDFV2-unknown

Status in file package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The libmagic1 package repots XLS files as application/CDFV2-unknown
  This is a bug in the libmagic code and has been fixed in version 5.31 and up.
  see:
  https://github.com/mscdex/mmmagic/issues/107

  We have a file transfer app running on LTS 16.04 and it's constantly
  rejecting files of .xls

  Deleted /companies/5412/FROM/RDMS_History.XLS Mime
  Type:application/CDFV2-unknown

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