Bug#659939: pod2man: no exit code & empty files left behind

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 06:10:56PM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> pod2man always exit with status 0 even if conversion failed.
> 
> Worse, empty files left behind, for example if invoked like
> 
>     pod2man /dev/null null.1 && echo OK
> 
> "OK" will be printed and empty file "null.1" will be created.
> 
> Empty file left by Pod::Simple because it create output file before content 
> generation. If no content produced, empty file left behind.
> 
> On top of this pod2man always exit with status code 0 disregarding
> conversion result.
> 
> The attached patch addresses both problems. (Sorry for not making test case 
> for this)

Hi Dmitry,

Please could you forward this upstream initially?
https://rt.cpan.org//Dist/Display.html?Queue=podlators

Cheers,
Dominic.

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