Hi,

Could someone have a look at bug #460608[1]. I cannot reproduce the bug,
I checked the code and it seems fine.

Thanks

Laurent Bigonville

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460608

Hi there,

when preparing a new upstream release of libpoe-component-irc-perl
using perl5.10, I got lost of lintian warnings about manpages:

W: libpoe-component-irc-perl: manpage-has-errors-from-man
usr/share/man/man3/POE::Component::IRC.3pm.gz 1442: `\-' is not
allowed in an escape name

Gregor and I tracked this down to the way that E is converted
since perl 5.10:

Original POD:

Hinrik Ern SigurEsson gmail.com>

perl 5.10 pod2man:

Hinrik O\*:rn Sigur\*(d\-sson gmail.com>

perl 5.8 pod2man:

Hinrik O\*:rn Sigur\*(d-sson gmail.com>

The minimal testcase can be obtained with the following oneliner:

echo -e '=pod\n\nE' | pod2man | tail -1

I'm asking here, because I don't know much about *roff and friends, so
maybe someone can say if this is actually a pod2man bug or not.

THanks.

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:45:47AM +0000, Thomas Viehmann wrote:

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Hi,

perl-modules Provides: libversion-perl since 5.10.0, and none of
those 25 or so packages have a versioned dependency (which can't be
provided).

The non-build-dependencies shouldn't be a problem, apt will select
perl-modules instead just like it does with libnet-perl currently.

As for building, perl-modules is currently always installed because
dpkg-dev is build-essential and pulls it in. It's not build-essential
itself, though.