Bug#868266: ncurses-bin,perl-doc: perldoc broken with latest ncurses

[gregor herrmann]

Package: ncurses-bin,perl-doc
Severity: normal

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perl-doc 5.24.1-7
ncurses-bin 6.0+20170708-1

Since the upgrade of ncurses (I'm not sure if already with 6.0+20170701-1
but for sure with 6.0+20170708-1) `perldoc $foo' doesn't work
anymore, as in: looks ugly.

To reproduce:

`perldoc perldoc' will show the same in $PAGER as `PAGER=cat perldoc
perldoc':

1NAME1
    perldoc - Look up Perl documentation in Pod format.

1SYNOPSIS1
        perldoc [-h] [-D] [-t] [-u] [-m] [-l] [-F]
            [-i] [-V] [-T] [-r]
            [-d destination_file]
            [-o formatname]
            [-M FormatterClassName]
            [-w formatteroption:value]
            [-n nroff-replacement]
            [-X]
            [-L language_code]
            PageName|ModuleName|ProgramName|URL


So no *roff markup, and the =head1 formatted as "1$whatever1".

Niko mentioned on IRC:
"I'm guessing it's something to do with Term::Cap running infocmp -C",
so it's not clear if this is actually a bug in ncurses or in perl ...


Cheers,
gregor


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