Bug#724498: perlsyn(1) contains POD errors

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 03:25:56PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> Package: perl-doc
> Version: 5.18.1-4
> Severity: minor
> File: /usr/share/man/man1/perlsyn.1.gz
> Tags: upstream
 
> The perlsyn(1) manual page contains a POD ERRORS section:

Thanks for noticing.

> I wonder how was this built

It's done by the 'installman' script, and that uses Pod::Man directly
instead of calling the pod2man script (which nowadays dies on errors.)

> since all other POD-shipping packages fail to 
> build with perl 5.18 if their POD has errors :)

Yeah, feels a bit like we're applying double standards :) I doubt this
is an intentional choice upstream but I don't really know. Possibly we
should ask.
-- 
Niko