Product: Fedora https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=924938 --- Comment #24 from Jan Kaluža <jkaluza@xxxxxxxxxx> --- It's still the same problem. File output is unreliable and I think it should not be used for use-cases where you really want to be sure. It will always detects some non-perl files as perl files and some perl files as non-perl files. For example, if you have Perl code in comment in C++ code, it will detect it as Perl. Currently Perl is detected using following two patterns: https://github.com/glensc/file/blob/master/magic/Magdir/perl#L29 . I don't know Perl so well to be able to write some regexp to detect typical Perl constructs which are not used by another languages. If you think you know how to significantly improve Perl detection while not breaking detection of other formants using what "man magic" provides, feel free to open bug with patch. What I could do is to increase the strength of "shebang" patterns, so it would detect "/usr/bin/automake" as "Perl script" again. The question is, what is the difference between Perl Module and Perl Script except the possible extension? Can Perl file with shebang contain Perl Module? If yes, we should detect it as Perl Module if there's "package", otherwise we will not set Provides right again. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. Unsubscribe from this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/token.cgi?t=Knoebms99i&a=cc_unsubscribe -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
