Bug#1122633: exiftool.1p: Some remarks and a patch with editorial changes for this man page

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:02:00 +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:

[potential problems in exiftool.1p]

I think you've been told this before, but I cam't be bothered to 
search for prior examples, so I'm explaining this again, and for the 
last time:

You are reporting a bug against exiftool.1p. This file doesn't exist 
in the source package, or the upstream source. The manpage is created 
from some POD documentation in a .pm file or .pod file at build time. 
This means: There is NOTHING, I repeat: NOTHING, that the Debian 
maintainers or the upstream maintainers of this package/distribution 
can do about these kind of problems.

If there is a problem in the created manpage, that needs to be 
addressed in the relevant tools, which are pod2man/Pod::Man in the 
case of Perl documentation in POD format.

Please stop reporting these unactionable bugs against random Perl 
packages in Debian. Also please close the plethora of bugs you have 
opended or merge and reassign them to one suitable package.

If you keep raising these kind of unactionable bug, I'll ask 
owner at bugs.debian.org for blocking your access to the BTS.


Cheers,
gregor

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