diff -urN rpm-5.4.10-orig/lib/rpmfc.c rpm-5.4.10-patched/lib/rpmfc.c
--- rpm-5.4.10-orig/lib/rpmfc.c	2018-06-21 16:46:02.416087354 +1000
+++ rpm-5.4.10-patched/lib/rpmfc.c	2018-06-21 16:54:06.839041871 +1000
@@ -1468,6 +1468,16 @@
 	    else if (_suffix(s, "qmldir"))
 		ftype = "qml file";
 
+	    /* XXX all files with extension ".egg" are ASCII text for now. */
+	    /* XXX python code examples from them give false Python script result. */
+	    else if (_suffix(s, ".egg"))
+		ftype = "ASCII text";
+
+	    /* XXX all files with extension ".egg-info" are ASCII text for now. */
+	    /* XXX python code examples from them give false Python script result. */
+	    else if (_suffix(s, ".egg-info"))
+		ftype = "ASCII text";
+
 	    /* XXX all files with extension ".php" are PHP for now. */
 	    else if (_suffix(s, ".php"))
 		ftype = "PHP script text";