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and subject line Bug#304143: fixed in perl 5.12.0-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #304143,
regarding perl-doc: 'whatis perlpacktut' garbage: "tutorial on *(C`pack*(C' and
*(C`unpack*(C'"
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Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.8.4-8
Severity: normal
The man page looks fine:
% man perlpacktut | grep -n "tutorial on "
6: perlpacktut - tutorial on "pack" and "unpack"
...but not the 'whatis':
% whatis perlpacktut
perlpacktut (1) - tutorial on *(C`pack*(C' and *(C`unpack*(C'
Its man page source code:
% zgrep -n "tutorial on " /usr/share/man/man1/perlpacktut.1.gz
134:perlpacktut \- tutorial on \f(CW\*(C`pack\*(C'\fR and
\f(CW\*(C`unpack\*(C'\fR
On my system there are several perl-ish man pages with the same bad
code:
% apropos "C\`"
***WARNING*** this manpage is no longer up-to-date.
See*(C`examples/map_to_gradient*(C' for a simple raw-pixel-manipulating
plug-in. If you bug me enough I'll rewrite this document. (3pm) [Gimp::Pixel] -
how to operate on raw pixels.
but can of some help for people interested in using modified Tk source
with*(C`perlTk*(C'. (3pm) [Tk::Internals] - what is Perl Tk interface doing
when you call Tk functions.
c2ph (1) - Dump C structures as generated from *(C`cc - g - S*(C'
stabs
charnames (3perl) - define character names for *(C`\N{named}*(C' string
literal escapes
Data::Dumper (3perl) - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both
printing and *(C`eval*(C'
if (3perl) - *(C`use*(C' a Perl module if a condition holds
PDL::Reduce (3pm) - - a *(C`reduce*(C' function for PDL
perlpacktut (1) - tutorial on *(C`pack*(C' and *(C`unpack*(C'
pstruct (1) - Dump C structures as generated from *(C`cc - g - S*(C'
stabs
Term::ReadLine (3perl) - Perl interface to various *(C`readline*(C' packages.
If no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions.
This document is under construction. The information is believed to be
pertinent to the version of *(C`portableTk*(C' available when it was created.
All the details are subject to change. (3pm) [Tk::Internals] - what is Perl Tk
interface doing when you call Tk functions.
This information is worse than useless for *(C`perlTk*(C' users (3pm)
[Tk::Internals] - what is Perl Tk interface doing when you call Tk functions.
Parsing that with a one-liner, the source packages of those man
pages are:
% apropos "C\`" | sed -e 's/ (.*//' -e 's/.* .* .*//' -e '/^$/d' | while
read n ; do n=`whereis $n`; dlocate ${n##* } ; done | sort
pdl: /usr/share/man/man3/PDL::Reduce.3pm.gz
perl-doc: /usr/share/man/man1/perlpacktut.1.gz
perl-doc: /usr/share/man/man3/Data::Dumper.3perl.gz
perl-doc: /usr/share/man/man3/Term::ReadLine.3perl.gz
perl-doc: /usr/share/man/man3/charnames.3perl.gz
perl-doc: /usr/share/man/man3/if.3perl.gz
perl: /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz
perl: /usr/share/man/man1/pstruct.1.gz
Mostly it's 'perl-doc'.
I'm guessing that "*(C`" was supposed to be a double quote, or
backquote, by way of some buggy doc reformatting script. It should be
fixed, but what's the script's name?
% zcat /usr/share/man/man1/perlpacktut.1.gz | head -n 1
.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man v1.37, Pod::Parser v1.14
...it's not on my system, even though its man page is:
%whereis Pod::Man
Pod::Man: /usr/share/man/man3/Pod::Man.3perl.gz
Searching through some uninstalled packages, it looks as though 'Pod::Man'
is in one of these:
po4a - tools for helping translation of documentation
info2man - Convert GNU info files to POD or man pages
NB: for me this seemingly cosmetic bug isn't 'minor' -- reason being
that those excess '*'s make it difficult to write scripts that parse the
output of 'apropos'. I noticed this bug while writing such a script.
Hope this helps...
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Source: perl
Source-Version: 5.12.0-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
perl, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
libcgi-fast-perl_5.12.0-1_all.deb
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libperl-dev_5.12.0-1_amd64.deb
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libperl5.12_5.12.0-1_amd64.deb
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perl-base_5.12.0-1_amd64.deb
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perl-debug_5.12.0-1_amd64.deb
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perl-doc_5.12.0-1_all.deb
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perl-modules_5.12.0-1_all.deb
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perl_5.12.0-1.debian.tar.gz
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perl_5.12.0-1.dsc
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perl_5.12.0-1_amd64.deb
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perl_5.12.0.orig.tar.bz2
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A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:22:01 +0300
Source: perl
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libperl-dev perl
Architecture: source all amd64
Version: 5.12.0-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Niko Tyni <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Niko Tyni <[email protected]>
Description:
libcgi-fast-perl - CGI::Fast Perl module
libperl-dev - Perl library: development files
libperl5.12 - shared Perl library
perl - Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language
perl-base - minimal Perl system
perl-debug - debug-enabled Perl interpreter
perl-doc - Perl documentation
perl-modules - Core Perl modules
Closes: 77707 304143 513935 558147 577011 577016 577018
Changes:
perl (5.12.0-1) experimental; urgency=low
.
* New upstream release.
+ POD markup in the NAME section is now suppressed by podlators,
fixing garbled whatis information for perlpacktut. (Closes: #304143)
+ "runaway format" errors have been removed. (Closes: #77707)
+ Pod::Perldoc no longer generates broken markup for the last perlfunc
and perlvar entries. (Closes: #558147)
+ Data::Dumper no longer crashes on an invalid push call.
(Closes: #513935)
* Move CPANPLUS::Config::System to the right source directory.
* Fix CPANPLUS test failures when $HOME does not exist. (Closes: #577011)
* Build-Conflict with libfile-sharedir-perl to avoid Module-Build test
failures due to ABI incompatibilities. (Closes: #577018)
* Point Vcs-* fields to the experimental git repository.
* Set -Dusemorebits on all architectures to support long doubles.
+ apparently fixes use64bitint test failures on sparc. (Closes: #577016)
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