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



On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 17:02 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > I noticed that Pod::Man likes to invent a new "POD ERRORS" manpage
> > section instead of using stderr.
> 
> This new default behavior was chosen by the Pod::Simple maintainer.  It
> can be turned off in Pod::Man, but I was hesitant to work contrary to the
> parser default (and the perlpodspec documentation).  Maybe a pod2man
> option to enable stderr reports would be useful?

Possibly, but not so useful for lintian... :)

Adam



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