[Bug 1088131] Re: ls --color doesn't recognize an arc archive as an archive

[Barry Warsaw]

FWIW, I applied the debdiff in #7 and built it locally (after disabling
a few tests that fail in my schroot).  This did not fix the problem.  I
think this is a minor enough bug and the fact that it's fixed in Debian
(and will eventually make its way to Ubuntu) makes it not really worth
patching.

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Title:
  ls --color doesn't recognize an arc archive as an archive

Status in The Gnu Core Utilities:
  Fix Released
Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  When listing the content of a directory with ls --color an arc archive
  isn't recognized as an such and isn't displayed with the appropriate
  colour. The following terminal output should give an idea:

  ubuntu at ubuntu:~/test$ ls
  sources.list
  ubuntu at ubuntu:~/test$ tar cfz sources.taz sources.list
  ubuntu at ubuntu:~/test$ arc a sources.arc sources.list
  Creating new archive: sources.arc
  Adding file:   sources.list   analyzing, crunched, done. (29%)
  ubuntu at ubuntu:~/test$ ls
  sources.arc  sources.list  sources.taz

  Note that sources.taz would be correctly displayed in red, but not
  sources .arc which nevertheless is an archive and should also be
  displayed with the same colour. So the $LS_COLORS environment variable
  needs to be adjusted accordingly by default (the correct value to add
  would probably be "01;31", and arc is absent from the output of
  dircolors -p).

  ProblemType: BugDistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: coreutils 8.13-3ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic-pae 3.2.24
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic-pae i686
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.315
  Date: Sun Dec  9 06:33:54 2012LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bashSourcePackage: coreutils
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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