On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 10:54:18PM +0200, Fabio Loli wrote: > Il 10/08/26 20:46, a821 ha scritto: > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 03:05:29PM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > > > Namarrgon [1] filed a deletion request for pod2man [2]: > > > > > > This only creates a symlink from /usr/bin to /usr/bin/core_perl/, > > > which is already in $PATH on a stock arch system with perl installed. > > > The exercise is pointless, the user should fix their $PATH instead. > > > > Deleting this will break many downstream packages. The AUR page lists > > ten consumers. I suggest to contact the maintainers of those packages > > and ask them to remove `pod2man` from their dependencies, so this > > package can be removed. > > > > And yes, I agree that this package is basically pointless, but it would > > be better to first fix those packages. > > Hi, last year I have builded several of the pkgbuilds which makedeepnds > on pod2man without it and succeded with both makepkg and devtools > > Have then commented on > colobot-gold > kdocker > lemonbar > lemonbar-git > lua-oocairo > nedit (also failed to build at the time) Thanks for checking those!
> Didn't coommet on > kdocker-git have one of the maintainers of kdocker > > python-xlsx2csv-git is a new pkgbuild (2026-07-31) I looked at this package and it builds fine without the `pod2man` package. However, I had to fix (or rather skip) the version test in `check()`. I will leave a comment there later. > zoneminder and zoneminder-git are confusing it with podman > it is listed as optdepnds with > 'pod2man: required for Docker support' I didn't notice it was an optdepend; I guess it was supposed to say `podman` > I have missed libvirt-sandbox; I see there it was added by an user > that is on Artix afaik I just left a comment there, but the maintainer cannot do anything until the AUR pushes are back. > Looking a years later got only reply and removal on colobot-gold > > Over time I got some people asking to add pod2man as makedepnds > but didn't get the root cause I also don't understand why some people see this error, I think it just a misconfiguration error.
