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Re: pre-approval for perl 5.10.0-15 changes



* Niko Tyni [Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:23:19 +0300]:

> Thanks, done. Unfortunately a new encoding issue with the "pod2man --utf8"
> functionality has cropped up; see #500210. 

> I'd like to upload this:

Please do.

Thanks,

> perl (5.10.0-16) unstable; urgency=low

>   * revert the perldoc "pod2man --utf8" change from 5.10.0-14. The
>     --utf8 option may output incorrect UTF-8 for POD documents that
>     don't specify an explicit =encoding. (Reopens: #492037)
>   * Discuss the above issue in the Pod::Man and pod2man documentation.

>  -- Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>  Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:26:06 +0300

> Patch against -15 attached with the duplication in debian/patches
> filtered out.  Is this OK with you?

> I don't see any point in waiting for -15 to get into lenny first (it's
> only two days old or so), but please let me know if you prefer that.

> I don't expect further trouble after this; the --utf8 option becomes
> totally opt-in but is usable given the documented limitation.


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