[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#720497: profphd: FTBFS with perl 5.18: POD failure

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Source: profphd
Version: 1.0.39-1
Severity: serious
Justification: transition imminent
User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
Usertags: perl-5.18-transition
Tags: sid jessie

This package FTBFS with perl 5.18:

make[2]: Entering directory `/build/dom-profphd_1.0.39-1-i386-9pRZV8/profphd-1.0
.39/src/prof'
sed -e 's|__pkgdatadir__|/usr/share/profphd|g;s|__sysconfdir__||g;s|__bindir__|/
usr/bin|g;s|__VERSION__|1.0.39|g;s|__PREFIX__|/usr|g;' "prof" | \
        pod2man -c 'User Commands' -r "1.0.39" -name PROF > "prof.1"
IO::File=IO(0x8486240) around line 241: Expected text after =item, not a number
POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2man line 71.
make[2]: *** [prof.1] Error 255
make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/dom-profphd_1.0.39-1-i386-9pRZV8/profphd-1.0.
39/src/prof'
make[1]: *** [prof] Error 2
make: *** [debian/stamp-makefile-build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2


Please ask debian-perl at lists.debian.org if you need help with preparing
or testing a change; if you have a suitable test i386 system you can
install perl 5.18 by adding experimental to your sources as well as the
repository at <http://people.debian.org/~dom/perl/test/perl-5.18.0/>

You can also find more about the perl 5.18 transition, which we hope
to start this week[1], at <http://bugs.debian.org/712615>.

Thanks for your work!

Cheers,
Dominic.

[1] apologies for the late appearance of this bug report; earlier
test coverage did not cover this package