On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:39:21PM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:

>> Specifically, we'd have to test that multi-line NAME sections are
>> handled correctly; it appears this bug was fixed only recently in the
>> pod2man that comes with Perl.

> Hmm, I tested with doc/crypto/des.pod with the pod2man.pl we had
> before the small fix that supposedly fixed this (-r 1.1), and I can't
> see anything wrong with the output.
> 
> If you could tell me what the difference is between a broken pod2man
> and a working one, I might be able to make an appropriate test...

The bug reported that led to the change was

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Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Wichert Akkerman writes:

>> Package: openssl
>> Version: 0.9.6-1
>> Severity: normal
>> 
>> The HISTORY section of RAND_add(3ssl) isn't formated correctly, its end
>> looks like this:
>> 
>>      RAND_event() in OpenSSL 0.9.5a.
>> 
>>      entropy to the PRNG"

> The .pod file is incorrect. Apparently you are not allowed to have
> more than one line in the NAME section. The following patch fixes
> this. 
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A later comment was

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The pod2man which comes with perl 5.6 has the same problem.
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