Bug#710107: perldoc: Error while formatting with Pod::Perldoc::ToMan: no nroffer!?

[Jakub Wilk]

Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.18.0-1
Severity: minor

perldoc from Perl 5.18 doesn't work if groff is not installed:
| $ perldoc perldoc
| Use of uninitialized value $roffer in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl/5.18/Pod/Perldoc/ToMan.pm line 53.
| Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl/5.18/Pod/Perldoc/ToMan.pm line 303.
| Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/share/perl/5.18/Pod/Perldoc/ToMan.pm line 308.
| Error while formatting with Pod::Perldoc::ToMan:
|  no nroffer!?
|  at /usr/share/perl/5.18/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 1346.
|
|
|  at /usr/bin/perldoc line 10.
| Got a 0-length file from /usr/share/perl/5.18/pod/perldoc.pod via Pod::Perldoc::ToMan!?
|
|  at /usr/bin/perldoc line 10.

This is a regression: previous versions of perldoc displayed raw POD in 
such situation, which might be suboptimal (see bug #206211), but is 
still better than nothing.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.8-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages perl-doc depends on:
ii  perl  5.18.0-1

perl-doc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages perl-doc suggests:
pn  groff        <none>
pn  man-browser  <none>

-- 
Jakub Wilk