[Debconf-devel] Bug#704866: debconf: [patch] fix doc/Makefile wrong pod mangling

[Oron Peled]

Source: debconf
Version: 1.5.49
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

* I'm co-maintaining debconf package in Fedora:
  (http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/debconf.git)

* In our development branch pod2man (from perl-5.16.3) complained about
  some debconf pod files and failed the build.

* Investigating this, I found that the reason was duplicated "=encoding"
  lines in those files (looks like newer perl is picky about them)

* It looks like there's a flaw in the perl snippet in doc/Makefile
  that generates those "=encodning" lines (the $$seen doesn't test
  what it should...)

* You can see the patch I applied to our package to workaround that bug:
   http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/debconf.git/tree/debconf-1.5.49-double-encoding.patch

* Another, unrelated issue is that the installation rules in the Makefile
  use valid, but deprecated "-perm +100" format (instead of "-perm /100").
  It seems that findutils-4.5.11 have an issue with this format:
  - Here is the upsteam BR: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?38474
  - And my patch, replacing "+100" with "/100":
     http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/debconf.git/tree/debconf-1.5.49-fix-find.patch

Thanks,