Bug#616582: pod2html doesn't remove temporary files

[Niko Tyni]

found 616582 5.10.1-17
notfound 616582 v5.10.1
merge 616582 378328
thanks

On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 08:17:45PM +0100, Neszt Tibor wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: v5.10.1

(Please use real package versions (or just reportbug) in the future.)

> Severity: normal
> 
> pod2html does not remove temporary files before exiting:

This is already reported as #378328, merging. There's an
upstream ticket at

 http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=69782

Quoting David Landgren there:

> These temporary files are in fact caches, that allow subsequent runs of
> pod2html to insert cross references to POD it already knows about.
[...]
> Ideally, these cache files would be stored long-term in a shared
> directory somewhere so that subsequent runs of pod2html could refer to
> them.

Unfortunately the issue seems to have stalled since.
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