File::S...rs::bflt(3)

💅 DEPRECATION PLAN 💅

okay bestie, so this is the bflt handler page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation — yes, that's the manual name, it's giving very "shipped with perl itself" energy ✨ — and tbh the whole page is basically one big heads-up 🫶

bFLT format is the one used in uClibc/uCLinux systems. Cute, historical, embedded-core 💖

But here's the tea ☕: as of 2020-04-30 there are zero .bflt files being shipped in Debian packages 😭 so this handler is a good candidate to commence deprecation — like, the vibe check came back and it's not looking great for our little format 💀

The plan (and it's a whole process, ngl) is to first make it optional, etc. 🎀 And perhaps survey whether any embedded distributions could be relying on this, because we're not out here breaking people's routers on purpose, periodt 🙈

no cap, the "etc." is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, but that's literally what the page says, so 💅

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Also see the uimage handler 👀 — the original says so, and honestly they're cousins, iykyk 🦋

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kisses, the perl v5.42.2 gworls, dated 2025-12-13 🍓🧚💜