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Re: require advice to patch (or not) a package



On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:53:33 +0100, Olivier Sallou wrote:

> There are several cases:
>  - missing description in =head1 NAME
> 
>  - dual =head1 NAME, one with description, one with no description.
> 
> It hits more than 200 files....

Hm, this is really a mess.
And dropping manpages seems only viable for some of them.

But after I had the suspicion that this is not handwritten, I
discovered something interesting: maint/bin/update_dbic_dump.pl which
seems to create (at least parts of) the modules/POD.

Especially generate_chado_submodule_pod and
_generate_chado_submodule_podfile look interesting, and there's
something about comments that are turned into whatis entries. And
they seem to come from %module_descriptions which seems to get filled
by some parsing of some (upstream chado) xml file, probably
https://gmod.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gmod/schema/trunk/chado/chado-module-metadata.xml

Phew.

Hm, not sure about the best way to proceed. Either someone digs
closer into this script or comesout with a fixit script, or upstream
can be bothered to improve the situation ...


Cheers,
gregor

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