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

[James McCoy]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 08:52:44PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Change in Pod::Simple 3.24 released 2013-02-14 (note, I don't maintain
> Pod::Simple; pod2man just uses it):
> 
>         Added a warning when "=item" types mismatch within one
>         "=over"/"=back" block. Marc Green/Google Summer of Code, with
>         assist from RJBS.
> 
> I'm still kind of dubious about it, but it fixes various other problems
> where Pod::Simple wasn't figuring out the type of =item lists properly,
> and I'm relatively doubtful that upstream will revert it.

Ok, thanks for the summary …

> The solution, if you have a numeric item in a list that's otherwise
> supposed to be a description list, is to add Z<> before or after the item
> value.  That will force it to be interpreted as a text label without
> changing anything else about the formatting.

… and the workaround.

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