Bug#481961: #481961: libpod-simple-perl: perlpod and perlpodspec are also in the core

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 01:14:47PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> I have a "fix" in SVN, but am a bit unsure about it. The fix just 
> removes the perlpod and perlpodspec manual pages and PODs from the 
> package. (BTW the package only overrides the PODs, the man pages are 
> in section 3pm while perl-doc uses section 1)
> 
> However, http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=36446 confuses 
> me. Does it mean that a future Perl release will include the same docs 
> as Pod-Simple?

I think this just means that installing Pod-Simple from CPAN will
overwrite the files in the local Perl distribution in the future. Reading
[rt.cpan.org #27203], the Pod-Simple author apparently considers his
version of the documentes the authoritative one too.

However, I don't see any evidence that the perlpod and perlpodspec
documents have been synced between Pod-Simple and the core. The
differences between Pod-Simple-3.07 and the bleadperl core branch are

% for i in pod podspec; do diff -u Pod-Simple-3.07/lib/perl$i.pod perl/pod;done|diffstat    
 perlpod.pod     |   57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 perlpodspec.pod |   55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 2 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

I think these conflicts should be sorted out upstream.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org