Bug#724498: perlsyn(1) contains POD errors

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 01:58:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> writes:
> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:43:46PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> >> Yeah, feels a bit like we're applying double standards :) I doubt this
> >> is an intentional choice upstream but I don't really know. Possibly we
> >> should ask.
> 
> > Just to note, Lintian tells us about a number of others which have
> > popped up since the last time I went through these - I was vaguely
> > planning on doing a syntax/spelling spree and sending the results
> > upstream at some point.
> 
> > Good point about suggesting a change to using pod2man, though.
> 
> Or, alternately, add errors => 'die' to the constructor arguments for
> Pod::Man, which is all that pod2man does.

The pod2man errors in core-maintained files (including perlsyn) have now
been fixed by

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/c9dde69614295354a2345c602ba0aaf904361582

which leaves:

W: perl-doc: manpage-has-errors-from-pod2man usr/share/man/man3/Memoize.3perl.gz:911
W: perl-doc: manpage-has-errors-from-pod2man usr/share/man/man3/Net::Config.3perl.gz:322
W: perl-doc: manpage-has-errors-from-pod2man usr/share/man/man3/TAP::Parser.3perl.gz:1480
W: perl-doc: manpage-has-errors-from-pod2man usr/share/man/man3/Text::ParseWords.3perl.gz:249
W: perl-doc: manpage-has-errors-from-pod2man usr/share/man/man3/Time::Seconds.3perl.gz:216
W: perl-doc: manpage-has-errors-from-pod2man usr/share/man/man3/Unicode::Collate.3perl.gz:1149
W: perl: manpage-has-errors-from-pod2man usr/share/man/man1/enc2xs.1.gz:430

Dominic.