Bug#714599: [transition-check] FTBFS with perl 5.18

James McCoy jamessan at debian.org
Sat Jul 13 00:30:31 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 10:50:56AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> There was a problem that it failed to build in current Factory due to
> Perl 5.18. The attached patch was submitted by Asterios Dramis.
> 
> The error encountered was:
> pod2man --utf8 --center=" " --release="Debian Utilities" transition-check.pl > transition-check.1
> transition-check.pl around line 66: Expected text after =item, not a number
> POD document had syntax errors at /usr/bin/pod2man line 71.

This seems like an incorrect error.  Nothing I've read (other than
this error) indicates that a number needs to be treated specially by
=item.  podchecker doesn't complain either.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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