Thanks to Dave Reisner at Arch Linux this issue is now fixed. He supplied me with a one-liner patch to solve the problem. I've attached the patch here for pushing into master.
Since it is a one-line patch, I hope the assignments don't prevent it from being pushed. -- Thanking You, Darshit Shah
0001-Fix-error-in-texi2pod-intriduced-with-Perl-5.18.patch
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