Re: RFH: Problem with pod2man/*roff
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:28:25PM -0300, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> W: libpoe-component-irc-perl: manpage-has-errors-from-man
> usr/share/man/man3/POE::Component::IRC.3pm.gz 1442: `\-' is not
> allowed in an escape name
> echo -e '=pod\n\nE<eth>' | pod2man | tail -1
>
> I'm asking here, because I don't know much about *roff and friends, so
> maybe someone can say if this is actually a pod2man bug or not.
This is also #480565, so it's invalid groff syntax according to the man-db
maintainer (Colin Watson). I just haven't had the time to forward it yet.
I think this should be reported at
http://search.cpan.org/dist/podlators/
although Russ is probably reading this already :)
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Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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