Bug#1041158: perl: pod2man propagates duplicate space in the man page

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: perl
Version: 5.36.0-7
Severity: normal

pod2man propagates duplicate space in the man page (contrary to
pod2text).

For instance, /usr/sbin/pam_getenv contains

This tool  will print out the value [...]

with 2 space characters between "tool" and "will" (this is probably
unwanted, but this shouldn't yield inconsistencies in their handling).

The pod2text utility generates only one space:

zira:~> pod2text /usr/sbin/pam_getenv | grep tool
    This tool will print out the value of *env_var* from /etc/environment.

but pod2man keeps both spaces, so that one gets them in the man page:
"pod2man /usr/sbin/pam_getenv | man -l -" gives

[...]
DESCRIPTION
       This tool  will print out the value of env_var from /etc/environment.
[...]

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages perl depends on:
ii  dpkg               1.21.22
ii  libperl5.36        5.36.0-7
ii  perl-base          5.36.0-7
ii  perl-modules-5.36  5.36.0-7

Versions of packages perl recommends:
ii  netbase  6.4

Versions of packages perl suggests:
pn  libtap-harness-archive-perl  <none>
ii  libterm-readline-perl-perl   1.0303-2.1
ii  make                         4.3-4.1
ii  perl-doc                     5.36.0-7

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