Bug#1021955: pod2man: runaway italics inside C<>

[Russ Allbery]

Jakub Wilk <jwilk at jwilk.net> writes:

> pod2man misformats I<> inside C<>.

> For example, if you run:

>     printf '=head1 FOO\n\nC<Only I<foo> should be italicized, not the rest>!\n' | pod2man - | man -l -

> not only "foo" is italicized, but also everything up to the closing quote
> character.

This bug has been fixed in podlators 5.00, which was released yesterday.
Hopefully it should make its way into at least the next major upstream
version of Perl, if not the next patch release.  (5.00 has fairly
significant changes, so I'm not sure if it will be pulled in for patch
releases.)

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>