Bug#652851: perl-doc: errors from man: macro `AE' not defined / can't break line

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 05:04:30PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> writes:
> 
> > This lintian warning appears many times:
> 
> > W: perl-doc: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/perl5100delta.1.gz 1024: warning: macro `AE' not defined
> 
> This is a bug in podlators that I'm surprised has gone unnoticed for so
> long.  Here's the relevant patch to Pod::Man:

Excellent, thanks for the swift fix!

> (Although you won't see this if you build with Unicode man pages; it's
> part of the fallback code to -- poorly -- attempt to simulate Unicode
> characters.)

Hmm, right. I wonder if we should be doing something different in order
to build Unicode man pages for perl, then.

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