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

Phil Harvey philharvey66 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 14 01:54:51 GMT 2025


For what it's worth, I'll go ahead and remove the spaces after the end-of-line periods in the ExifTool pods.

	- Phil

> On Dec 13, 2025, at 6:51 PM, gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2025 11:41:40 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
>> gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> writes:
>>> 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.
>> For the record, as Pod::Man maintainer I'm not really interested in these
>> bug reports either. Bjarni has found some actual bugs in the *roff
>> generation in the past, but most of their bug reports are about things
>> like trailing whitespace that seem like a waste of everyone's time to me.
>> The occasional real bug report is useful, but the signal to noise ratio is
>> bad enough that I'd want to see some more dedication to understanding what
>> sorts of problems matter.
> 
> Thanks Russ for adding your perspective!
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> gregor
> 
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