Package: perl
Version: 5.36.0-7
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
groff-base v1.23 has been uploaded to unstable, which disables the CW macro
by default. This causes errors like this to be generated with pod2man now:
puck@dirk:~$ pod2man /usr/share/perl/5.36.0/version.pod | nroff -man | grep CW
troff:<standard input>:145: warning: cannot select font 'CW'
troff:<standard input>:182: warning: cannot select font 'CW'
troff:<standard input>:191: warning: cannot select font 'CW'
troff:<standard input>:205: warning: cannot select font 'CW'
troff:<standard input>:207: warning: cannot select font 'CW'
...
This is causing lintian to be upset when build packages, e.g.:
W: rt-extension-mergeusers-common: groff-message troff:<standard input>:115:
warning: cannot select font 'CW'
[usr/share/man/man3/RT::Extension::MergeUsers.3pm.gz:1]
This version of groff-base introduces a new option in /etc/groff/man.local:
.\" "CW" is not a portable font name, but some man pages use it anyway.
.\" Uncomment this to suppress warnings produced by such pages. This
.\" test remaps the font to roman ("R") on nroff (terminal) devices. You
.\" might prefer to remap it to bold ("B") instead.
.\" .if n .ftr CW R
Now, is it pod2man or groff-base that is at fault here? Perl 5.38 still uses
CW in pod2man by default.
Cheers,
Andrew
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