Debian Bug report logs - #435625
perl-doc: =encoding command documented in perlpod is unrecognised

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Package: perl-doc; Maintainer for perl-doc is Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>; Source for perl-doc is src:perl (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: tina@debian.org

Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 06:30:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version perl/5.8.8-7

Fixed in version 5.10.0-1

Done: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, martin.ferrari@gmail.com, Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>:
Bug#435625; Package perl-doc. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Martín Ferrari <martin.ferrari@gmail.com>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to martin.ferrari@gmail.com, Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martín Ferrari <martin.ferrari@gmail.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: perl-doc: =encoding command documented in perlpod is unrecognised
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:28:09 +0100
Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.8.8-7
Severity: normal

The perlpod documents the =encoding command to specify the encoding of
the POD, but is not recognized by any of the pod tools:

$ echo -e '=pod\n\n=encoding utf8' | pod2man > /dev/null
<standard input>:3: Unknown command paragraph "=encoding utf8"


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (901, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages perl-doc depends on:
ii  perl                          5.8.8-7    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

perl-doc recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information



Reply sent to Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Martín Ferrari <martin.ferrari@gmail.com>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at 435625-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
To: 435625-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#435625: perl-doc: =encoding command documented in perlpod is unrecognised
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:42:36 +0200
Version: 5.10.0-1

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:28:09AM +0100, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> Package: perl-doc
> Version: 5.8.8-7
> Severity: normal
> 
> The perlpod documents the =encoding command to specify the encoding of
> the POD, but is not recognized by any of the pod tools:
> 
> $ echo -e '=pod\n\n=encoding utf8' | pod2man > /dev/null
> <standard input>:3: Unknown command paragraph "=encoding utf8"

Fixed in 5.10.0. From the changelog:

[32330] By: stevep                                on 2007/11/15  21:20:41
        Log: Change Pod::Checker to allow the "=encoding" Pod command.  Fixes
             RT #47271: podchecker says Unknown command 'encoding'
     Branch: perl
           ! lib/Pod/Checker.pm

Closing accordingly.

Cheers,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni@debian.org




Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.debian.org> to internal_control@bugs.debian.org. (Fri, 30 May 2008 07:29:00 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Bug unarchived. Request was from <tina@aine.tina.pm> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Wed, 01 Jul 2020 16:21:08 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Changed Bug submitter to 'tina@debian.org' from 'Martín Ferrari <martin.ferrari@gmail.com>'. Request was from <tina@aine.tina.pm> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Wed, 01 Jul 2020 16:21:08 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Bug archived. Request was from <tina@aine.tina.pm> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Wed, 01 Jul 2020 16:21:09 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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