Bug#435625: marked as done (perl-doc: =encoding command documented in perlpod is unrecognised)

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Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.8.8-7
Severity: normal

The perlpod documents the =encoding command to specify the encoding of
the POD, but is not recognized by any of the pod tools:

$ echo -e '=pod\n\n=encoding utf8' | pod2man > /dev/null
<standard input>:3: Unknown command paragraph "=encoding utf8"


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (901, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages perl-doc depends on:
ii  perl                          5.8.8-7    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

perl-doc recommends no packages.

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Version: 5.10.0-1

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:28:09AM +0100, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> Package: perl-doc
> Version: 5.8.8-7
> Severity: normal
> 
> The perlpod documents the =encoding command to specify the encoding of
> the POD, but is not recognized by any of the pod tools:
> 
> $ echo -e '=pod\n\n=encoding utf8' | pod2man > /dev/null
> <standard input>:3: Unknown command paragraph "=encoding utf8"

Fixed in 5.10.0. From the changelog:

[32330] By: stevep                                on 2007/11/15  21:20:41
        Log: Change Pod::Checker to allow the "=encoding" Pod command.  Fixes
             RT #47271: podchecker says Unknown command 'encoding'
     Branch: perl
           ! lib/Pod/Checker.pm

Closing accordingly.

Cheers,
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Niko Tyni   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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