Quoting Johannes Schauer (2019-11-17 22:51:10) > Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2019-11-17 21:50:54) > > Ah, indeed - I wasn't aware of that (and wonder if other tools in > > Debian suffer from same issue). > > > > I suggest look at the package rename - from a quick experimentation > > it seems to show source only for its more exotic --man option and > > not its --help option. > > > > Even if keeping code as-is, I'd argue that it makes more sense to > > relax to only recommend perl-doc: Core functionality is unaffected > > and nothing explodes, it just "looks weird". > > I think there is an easy solution. It indeed seems that executing > pod2usage() from Pod::Usage with -verbose=>1 does *not* require the > package perl-doc and prints the sections "synopsis" and "options" > which I think is everything that can be expected of the --help output. > Only with -verbose=>2 is the perl-doc package needed to avoid printing > out the source code. > > So after changing the call to pod2usage() from -verbose=>2 to > -verbose=>1 for the --help output we can completely drop the perl-doc > dependency.
Good to hear that. Happy to help just a tiny bit on this marvellous tool! - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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