Bug#949849: libpod-elemental-perl: "typo fix" patch being applied by Debian is *wrong*

[Ricardo SIGNES]

Package: libpod-elemental-perl
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

I am the author of Pod::Elemental, packaged by Debian as libpod-elemental-perl.

I was informed in 2015 that a typo fix was being applied:

  https://github.com/rjbs/Pod-Elemental/issues/5

I said: This fix is wrong.  Please stop.

The patch is:

  https://sources.debian.org/patches/libpod-elemental-perl/0.103004-1/fix_spelling_error_in_manpage.patch/

My documentation is correct, here, and the patch makes it nonsensical.

Please stop applying this patch.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.11
  APT prefers oldoldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldoldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.1.17-x86_64-linode128 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)