Bug#497864: lintian: please warn if a manpage contains a "POD ERRORS" section
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Niko and I are talking about the podlators side of it in the CPAN RT.
I'll query p5p about changing the default behavior of the command-line
programs to complain on stderr and not inside the generated man page.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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