Bug#777405: perl: pod2man puts object references into man page headers when used inside a pipe

[Russ Allbery]

Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> writes:

> Some context information: The man pages are build by using pod2man
> inside a pipe. From wml_frontend/Makefile.in:

> |     69 .src.1:
> |     70         cp $< $*.pod
> |     71         cat $*.pod | sed -e 's|\@WML_VERSION\@|$(WML_VERSION)|g' | \
> |     72                 pod2man --section=1 --center="EN Tools" --release="EN Tools" > $@
> |     73         rm -f $*.pod

You need to tell pod2man what the title of the man page is, using the
--name flag.  Given a pipe, it has no idea what to use for that field
unless you tell it.

A stringified IO::File object is probably a minor aesthetic bug, and I can
replace it with a constant string, but it's still going to be something
useless (which in turn is going to cause other issues) unless you provide
--name.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>