Bug#659939: pod2man: no exit code & empty files left behind

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:19:20AM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> Hi Dominic,
> 
> On Friday 17 February 2012 07:42:36 Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > Please could you forward this upstream initially?
> > https://rt.cpan.org//Dist/Display.html?Queue=podlators
> 
> Perhaps I should have, but I'm just not familiar with their bug tracker yet.
> I would more likely to do that if I couldn't provide patch suitable for "perl" 
> package.
> 
> Another reason I have (although not an important one) is that I'm 
> familiarising myself with perl build system we use in Debian because I'd like 
> to do more Perl-related work here, if time allows.
> 
> I hope it is OK to work by fixing problems in Debian first.

It's okay to develop and test against the perl in Debian, but working
with upstream is an important part of the way that the perl packaging
team works. At minimum, a patch (which is not Debian specific - ie
goes in fixes/ rather than debian/) should be forwarded upstream, and
in many cases it is appropriate for it to be fixed in upstream
blead/modules releases (in the case of dual lived modules). Given we
have more than 50 patches at the moment, this discipline ensures that
the patch maintenance burden doesn't become too great. You should find
that all the patches in fixes have URLs to bug trackers or upstream
VCSes with further details of the change, which can be very useful
when importing a new upstream release.

Filing problems upstream also gives valuable feedback from those who
are closest to the code (and given the size of the codebase, we can't
all be experts in every area of the code).

Having said all that, I know that Russ has acked your patch to podlators,
so I'm happy to apply it. But it should still be filed at rt.cpan.org
as a record.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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