The following reply was made to PR pkg/34337; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/34337 CVS commit: pkgsrc/sysutils/file
Date: Sat,  7 Oct 2006 19:46:07 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	pkgsrc
 Committed By:	reed
 Date:		Sat Oct  7 19:46:06 UTC 2006
 
 Modified Files:
 	pkgsrc/sysutils/file: Makefile distinfo
 	pkgsrc/sysutils/file/patches: patch-aa
 
 Log Message:
 Update to 4.17. This is for PR 34337.
 
 Recent changes include:
 
 2006-03-02 16:06 Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
 
 	* Print empty if the file is (Mike Frysinger)
 
 	* Don't try to read past the end of the buffer (Mike Frysinger)
 
 	* Sort magic entries by strength [experimental]
 
 2005-11-29 13:26 Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
 
 	* Use iswprint() to convert the output string.
 	    (Bastien Nocera)
 
 2005-10-31 8:54 Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
 
 	* Fix regression where the core info was not completely processed
 	    (Radek Vokál)
 
 2005-10-20 11:15 Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
 
 	* Middle Endian magic (Diomidis Spinellis)
 
 2005-10-17 11:15 Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
 
 	* Open with O_BINARY for CYGWIN (Corinna Vinschen)
 
 	* Don't close stdin (Arkadiusz Miskiewicz)
 
 	* Look for note sections in non executables.
 
 2005-09-20 13:33 Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
 
 	* Don't print SVR4 Style in core files multiple times
 	    (Radek Vokál)
 
 2005-08-27 04:09 Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
 
 	* Cygwin changes Corinna Vinschen
 
 2005-08-18 09:53 Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
 
 	* Remove erroreous mention of /etc/magic in the file man page
 	  This is gentoo bug 101639. (Mike Frysinger)
 
 	* Cross-compile support and detection (Mike Frysinger)
 
 2005-08-12 10:17 Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
 
 	* Add -h flag and dereference symlinks if POSIXLY_CORRECT
 	  is set.
 
 2005-07-29 13:57 Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
 
 	* Avoid search and regex buffer overflows (Kelledin)
 
 2005-07-12 11:48 Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
 
 	* Provide stub implementations for {v,}nsprintf() for older
 	  OS's that don't have them.
 	* Change mbstate_t autoconf detection macro from AC_MBSTATE_T
 	  to AC_TYPE_MBSTATE_T.
 
 2005-06-25 11:48 Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
 
 	* Dynamically allocate the string buffers and make the
 	  default read size 256K.
 
 2005-06-01 00:00 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
 
 	* Dragonfly ELF note support
 
 2005-03-14 00:00 Giuliano Bertoletti <gb@symbolic.it>
 
 	* Avoid NULL pointer dereference in time conversion.
 
 2005-03-06 00:00  Joerg Walter <jwalt@mail.garni.ch>
 
 	* Add indirect magic offset support, and search mode.
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -r1.11 -r1.12 pkgsrc/sysutils/file/Makefile
 cvs rdiff -r1.4 -r1.5 pkgsrc/sysutils/file/distinfo
 cvs rdiff -r1.2 -r1.3 pkgsrc/sysutils/file/patches/patch-aa
 
 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.