Kwalitee Indicator: no_pax_headers core

This distribution is archived with PAX extended headers, which may be useful under some environments, but may also make extraction fail under other environments (Archive::Tar ignores PAX information as well).

How to fix

If you use Mac OS X >= 10.6, use gnu tar (/usr/bin/gnutar) to avoid PAX headers. It's also important to rename (shorten) long file names (>= 100 characters) in the distribution.

Yearly Statistics

Year Fails (Latest) Releases (Latest) Fails (CPAN) Releases (CPAN) Fails (BackPAN) Releases (BackPAN)
2025 241 2847 534 6620 563 8016
2024 45 1801 379 6024 429 11123
2023 59 1711 237 5484 315 10209
2022 27 1434 157 5240 202 9539
2021 44 1634 195 5268 252 10425
2020 68 1762 387 6304 454 12522
2019 18 1604 76 5940 103 12452
2018 13 1592 55 6439 111 15488
2017 24 2207 82 7738 158 16357
2016 27 2120 119 7986 182 19948

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