On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 09:22:20AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2013-05-20 08:57, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Niels Thykier <[email protected]> writes: > >> On 2013-05-20 01:54, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > >>> Be aware that Perl 5.18.0 includes podlators 2.5.1, which means that > >>> pod2man now exits with an error by default if there are POD syntax > >>> errors. I believe this means that some fairly large percentage of the > >>> packages with the manpage-has-errors-from-pod2man will FTBFS once this > >>> becomes the default version of Perl.
Yep, already seen a few in my perlapi rebuilds: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.18-transition;[email protected] > >>> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/manpage-has-errors-from-pod2man.html > > > >> Looks like at least 50 packages that will start to FTBFS if I am reading > >> that graph right. Personally, I would appreciate that these packages > >> were fixed before we started the transition to avoid making the > >> transition longer than it has to be. Yep, certainly. > > Note that this will only apply to packages that run pod2man during the > > build. It's not at all clear to me how many of those packages fall into > > that category (I haven't looked). [...] > > > > I'm also not completely positive that all of the various Perl module build > > systems will fail on POD errors, since they may use Pod::Man directly > > rather than running pod2man. [...] > > > > That is a fair point. That said, the packages that will FTBFS because > of this change would still need to be fixed. If you can skip the subset > that doesn't use pod2man, then it is "just" less work for you. :) I expect to pick up some more of them with the lib*-perl arch: all rebuilds I've just kicked off, but will also explictly test ones which hit that lintian warning. > > I notice that in several places people have added overrides for this tag. > > I'd be very curious (as pod2man upstream) what the rationale is for those > > overrides. > > > > I feel that way with quite a few Lintian overrides. :) > > In the given case, it appears to only be libpoe-perl. The overrides do > not appear to have a(n extractable) comment according to the log on > lintian.d.o. The relevant change is http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libpoe-perl.git;a=commit;h=a70340a49d0305d46a56ce7ae3f297469285daaf # non-empty Z<> # probably newer POD stuff? Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
