Bug#839167: perl: pod2man generates empty man page when pod file begins with =begin pod

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 03:48:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Dominique Dumont <dod at debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Unfortunately, pod2man from perl 5.24 generates empty man page when pod
> > file begins with =begin pod.  This worked fine with perl 5.22

> I believe the upstream author has fallen victim to relying on undocumented
> behavior in Pod::Simple that's changed.

Dominique, are you sure it was working with 5.22? I see
rakudo_2016.06-1_all.deb in testing has an empty perl6.1 manual page,
and it was presumably built with 5.22. At least the headers say so...

My quick tests back to squeeze (5.10.1) haven't found any version
where it worked but I could be doing something wrong.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org