Hi Monks,

looking on CPANTS (https://cpants.cpanauthors.org/) I noticed the issue "no_pax_headers" for a number of modules. I asked chatgpt and it told me that you can check a tarball for these headers as follows:

tar --list --verbose --file=My-Module-0.01.tar.gz | grep -i pax

Being curious, I tried this command with a number of modules that have this issue, but I never got an output. I also checked the output of tar -tvf My-Module-0.01.tar.gz and found no PaxHeaders. Btw, for a number of modules my tar (GNU tar 1.34 on linux) printed warnings such as:

tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword 'LIBARCHIVE.xattr.com.apple.provenance'

but not always, e.g. running the command for Inline-Python-0.58.tar.gz and Config-INI-RefVars-0.21.tar.gz did not produce such warnings. So these warnings seem not to be related to pax headers issue.

I do not have a problem with this on my machine, but I would like to understand what's going on: How is it that Kwalitee on CPANTS sees these PaxHeaders, but my tar does not?