Which libmagic did python-magic use?

Question

I'm using

python-magic

and I've installed it using

sudo apt-get remove libmagic-dev

In order to cite it properly, when i tried to find the authors online, i realized there are multiple libmagic libraries, e.g.

• http://linux.die.net/man/3/libmagic
• http://swoolley.org/man.cgi/3/libmagic
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmagic/

What is the source of the libmagic-dev found in the ubuntu apt-get repo?

Answer 1

python-magic depends on libmagic1

$ apt-cache show python-magic | grep ^Depend
Depends: python (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2), python (<< 2.8), libmagic1 (= 5.11-2ubuntu4)

According to package information, libmagic1 is from http://www.darwinsys.com/file/

$ apt-cache show libmagic1 | grep ^Homepage
Homepage: http://www.darwinsys.com/file/

If you follow the link, you can find the link that contains source codes: ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/