Your message dated Mon, 9 Feb 2015 17:59:45 -0800 with message-id <cafuqiezztzdp6c+tf+zrdfvoo+oaqu2ptbc6jdqmn35stes...@mail.gmail.com> has caused the report #777471, regarding fvwm: "fvwm-perllib man" uses pod2man in a pipe without "--name" (will fail with future pod2man releases) to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software author(s) "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, Please retain the CC to [email protected] in your response, so that the Debian BTS has a record. When using "fvwm-perllib man", the title of the resulting manpage shows the title IO::File=IO(0x22d5320)(3) Fvwm Perl library IO::File=IO(0x22d5320)(3) with the stringified object reference instead of proper title. This is caused by the following lines in [fvwm src]/bin/fvwm-perllib.in open(MANPIPE, $do_cat ? "| pod2text '$file' | $pager" : "| pod2man --section 3 --release 'fvwm $version$version_info'" . " --center 'Fvwm Perl library' '$file'" . " | @SED@ 's/<STANDARD INPUT>/perllib/ig'$man_converter") or die "Can't open pipe to pod/man viewer\n"; pod2man needs the filename in order to format the title properly, which is not available when it is used in a pipe. The name can be explicitly specified by passing the argument "--name" to pod2man. Upstream of Pod::Man (the backend of pod2man) has stated [1], "the next version of Pod::Man that will diagnose parsing POD from standard input without providing --name as an error, and defaults the title to STDIN if error handling is set to proceed despite errors." See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777471 for more information. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777471#17 Regards, Vincent Chen
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