reassign 497866 perl-modules 5.10.0-13
forwarded 497866 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=39007
thanks

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 01:59:51AM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> Package: perl-doc
> Version: 5.10.0-13
> Severity: wishlist

> I noticed in the caff(1) manpage in the signing-party package that there
> is a fancy new "POD ERRORS" section:

> While I appreciate that those are errors to be corrected, the manpage
> itself definitely isn't the place where to put a list of them: they
> are not documentation, they are a message to the developer: the
> developer, I guess, hardly reads the manpage, while the users will be
> quite puzzled ad seeing things that are mostly none of their concern,
> and surely not helping them in understanding the software.

The manpage is created at package build time by pod2man, which could
use Pod::Simple->no_errata_section() to fix this.

I just forwarded this upstream, see

 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=39007

Thanks for the report,
-- 
Niko Tyni   [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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