“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
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Re: “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
#2From 2009-04-28. No activity on that bug, or on the bug it duplicates ('file' misidentifies a Postscript file as a Haskell file) for many years.
Any news since?
Re: “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
#3Likely it was fixed in file
Re: “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
#4I'm gonna argue that the bug is not in "file". The bug is that the workflow uses file, which by it's very nature must be based on heuristics and will get things wrong occasionally.
EDIT: Well file really had a bug in this case, where they didn't detect what they thought they were, but the point stands.
Re: “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
#5This thread from last July has a link about it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344655
Re: “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
#6From 2009-04-28. No activity on that bug, or on the bug it duplicates ('file' misidentifies a Postscript file as a Haskell file) for many years. Any news since?
Looks like a fix was released in `file` later the same year https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file/+bug/248619
Re: “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
#7I'm gonna argue that the bug is not in "file". The bug is that the workflow uses file, which by it's very nature must be based on heuristics and will get things wrong occasionally. EDIT: Well file really had a bug in this case, where they didn't detect what they thought they were, but the point stands.
I agree that you should use care when using file. My app relied on "file" to identify file types, and in some cases it mis-identified some Microsoft Office files. The problem was that Apple ships a very old magic file with macOS, and when I reported the bug they said they don't care.
Re: “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
#8Funny, but can someone add (2009) in the title?
Re: “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
#9I love bugs like this. As a developer or Sysadmin you'd think the users are crazy again but then you dig deeper until you lose all hope and already book flights to become a farmer in the midwest and then you find something like thís
Re: “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)
#10This thread from last July has a link about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344655
And this one from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11717010