podlators 4.08 released

[Russ Allbery]

Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 07:42:04PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>>     https://archives.eyrie.org/software/perl/podlators-4.08.tar.gz

>> Changes since the previous release:
>> 
>>     [Pod::Man] Partially revert change in 4.00 to require the name option
>>     (--name to pod2man) when generating man pages from standard input.
>>     Historically, pod2man silently tolerated this, and there turned out to
>>     be a lot of software that depended on this, making the change too
>>     disruptive.  Instead, silently set the man page title to STDIN in this
>>     case, but warn about it in the documentation.  (#117990)

> Hi Russ, do you think we should backport this to Debian / Perl 5.24
> for stretch?  The resulting build failures have been sorted out some
> time ago, but I guess there's a chance of user code breaking and so forth.

It's up to you, since I could make an argument either way and don't have
any strong feelings.  I think it was on the boarder of acceptable
disruption, and I went back and forth on it.  But since I kept getting bug
reports about it, I went ahead and erred on the side of backward
compatibility.

I suppose it might be worth doing this just so that people have less time
with the intermediate and now-reverted behavior and it may save some
unnecessary effort.

> Alternatively, 5.24.1 still isn't out upstream so I guess there might be
> a chance of getting that change in there and rippling from there to
> stretch as well...

Yeah, I'm never sure exactly how the third-party module update process
works in terms of timing.  :)

-- 
Russ Allbery (eagle at eyrie.org)              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>