Bug#724498: perlsyn(1) contains POD errors

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:43:46PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 03:25:56PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > Package: perl-doc
> > Version: 5.18.1-4
> > Severity: minor
> > File: /usr/share/man/man1/perlsyn.1.gz
> > Tags: upstream
>  
> > The perlsyn(1) manual page contains a POD ERRORS section:
> 
> Thanks for noticing.
> 
> > I wonder how was this built
> 
> It's done by the 'installman' script, and that uses Pod::Man directly
> instead of calling the pod2man script (which nowadays dies on errors.)
> 
> > since all other POD-shipping packages fail to 
> > build with perl 5.18 if their POD has errors :)
> 
> 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.