Comment 11 for bug 248619

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).