Bug#521256: Bug report, perl-doc warnings when perldoc perlre is run

[Justin Catterall]

Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.10.0-19
Severity: minor


When running `perldoc perlre` in a terminal warnings are reported,  
here is a transcript:

$ perldoc perlre
<standard input>:345: a space character is not allowed in an escape name
<standard input>:380: a space character is not allowed in an escape name
<standard input>:380: a space character is not allowed in an escape name
$


The documentation is then displayed, but the warnings are left behind  
when perldoc is closed.

I am not familiar with POD files and so am unable to establish what is  
causing the above and suggest a fix.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
   APT prefers stable
   APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-12-amd64-generic
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages perl-doc depends on:
ii  perl                          5.10.0-19  Larry Wall's Practical  
Extraction

perl-doc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages perl-doc suggests:
ii  groff                        1.18.1.1-21 GNU troff text-formatting  
system
ii  man-db [man-browser]         2.5.2-4     on-line manual pager

-- no debconf information


-- 
Justin Catterall