Bug#497864: lintian: please warn if a manpage contains a "POD ERRORS" section
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 agree that checking for this makes sense for lintian.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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