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Bug#497864: lintian: please warn if a manpage contains a "POD ERRORS" section



Package: lintian
Version: 1.24.2.1
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

I noticed that Pod::Man likes to invent a new "POD ERRORS" manpage
section instead of using stderr.

While I really have problems with that feature, it could make sense for
lintian to catch those and warn about them.  An example manpage with
such errors is caff(1) in the signing-party package.

Ciao,

Enrico

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils            2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat            1.45-2               produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev            1.14.20              Debian package development tools
ii  file                4.25-1               Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext             0.17-3               GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian     0.35.0+20060710.1    Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libdigest-sha-perl  5.47-1               Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii  libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2              parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl    1.1600-9             Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl         1.35.dfsg.1-1        Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db              2.5.2-2              on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-13            Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
ii  libtext-template-perl         1.44-1.2   Text::Template perl module
ii  man-db                        2.5.2-2    on-line manual pager

-- no debconf information



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