I have reproduced the file misidentification of the Postscript file as
an Erlang JAM file with the version of file in hardy-updates,
4.21-3ubuntu1, and have verified that the version in hardy-proposed
correctly identifies it as a Postscript file. I was unable to reproduce
the printing issue, probably because I'm using a different Brother
printer (HL-5250DN); however, printing continued to function post-
upgrade.

I installed most of the erlang packages along with other software that
was implemented in erlang (there's not much in the archive), and did a
wholesale comparision of file output on the majority of the filesystem
(a nominally stock hardy desktop install). Out of 102507 files examined,
I had one false-positive,
/usr/lib/erlang/lib/typer-0.1.0.1/ebin/typer.appup from the erlang-nox
package, which gets mis-detected as ASCII text (it's not clearto me that
file's detection of typer.appup as a JAM file is correct, either). The
only other detected differences were 3 changelog files that had been
mis-identified originally as JAM files that were correctly identified
post-upgrade. Fortunately, true JAM files are likely to be uncommon, as
the community has (mostly?) moved on the BEAM virtual machine (which is
what our erlang packages support).

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file incorrectly labeled as Erlang JAM file
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