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Slaven Rezic wrote...
> Manpage files generated from Perl's Pod souces are not detected anymore
> as troff files.
>
> With debian:buster:
>
> $ zcat /usr/share/man/man3/strict.3perl.gz | file -
Just a hint, file has an --uncompress/-z to ease that.
> $ zcat /usr/share/man/man3/strict.3perl.gz | file -
> /dev/stdin: ReStructuredText file, ASCII text
>
> I checked one other non-perl manpage file, and it still seems to be
> detected correctly, so possibly only perl manpage files are affected.
Thanks for reporting, this is not good even if it's just about pod2man
generated manpages (mis-detection is triggered by the equal signs
inserted).
Christoph
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