Bug#497864: lintian: please warn if a manpage contains a "POD ERRORS" section
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 20:06 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 06:30:20AM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > 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... :)
>
> I think Russ was speaking with another hat, not as lintian maintainer.
I realise that; in fact, it was the reason for the smiley. Possibly not
as obvious as I'd intended though :-/
> I agree that checking for this makes sense for lintian.
Likewise.
Adam
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