Rawhide perl dependency generator flaky?

[Miloslav Trmač]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
> file 5.10 has changed magics for various scripts in a way that causes
> missing autodeps at least for Perl and Python scripts.

This is a fairly frequently recurring problem; wouldn't it make sense
to start building a small collection of files as a sort of test suite
so that future updates of "file" could be done with reasonable
confidence that nothing is going to break?
    Mirek