Bug#1039605: perltoc.1: weird formatted text in chapter "Portability"

Bjarni Ingi Gislason bjarniig at simnet.is
Tue Jun 27 19:27:16 BST 2023


Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.36.0-7
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

  Part of the text needs correct formatting.

  The formatted text in chapter

Portability
Alphabetical Listening of Perl Functions

  begins so (with column width of 100):

           Portability
           Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
               -X FILEHANDLE

               , -X EXPR, -X DIRHANDLE, -X, abs VALUE  , abs, accept NEWSOCKET,GENERICSOCKET ,
               alarm SECONDS , alarm, atan2 Y,X    , bind SOCKET,NAME , binmode FILEHANDLE, LAYER
                , binmode FILEHANDLE, bless REF,CLASSNAME , bless REF, break, caller EXPR    ,
               caller, chdir EXPR   , chdir FILEHANDLE, chdir DIRHANDLE, chdir, chmod LIST   ,
               chomp VARIABLE     , chomp( LIST ), chomp, chop VARIABLE , chop( LIST ), chop,
               chown LIST
                  , chr NUMBER , chr, chroot FILENAME  , chroot, close FILEHANDLE , close,
               closedir DIRHANDLE , connect SOCKET,NAME , continue BLOCK , continue, cos EXPR
                  , cos, crypt PLAINTEXT,SALT

                 , dbmclose HASH , dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MASK     , defined EXPR
                 , defined, delete EXPR , die LIST
                    , do BLOCK , do EXPR , dump LABEL   , dump EXPR, dump, each HASH  , each
               ARRAY , eof FILEHANDLE   , eof (), eof, eval EXPR
 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.3.7-1 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages perl-doc depends on:
ii  perl  5.36.0-7

perl-doc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages perl-doc suggests:
ii  groff-base            1.22.4-10
ii  man-db [man-browser]  2.11.2-2

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