After installing p5-MIME-Lite on a 4.6 i386 system, I get the following in my weekly system email:

Rebuilding whatis databases:
/usr/local/man/man3p/MIME::changes.3p: can't expand Aq
/usr/local/man/man3p/MIME::changes.3p: can't expand Aq
/usr/local/man/man3p/MIME::changes.3p: can't expand Aq
/usr/local/man/man3p/MIME::changes.3p: can't expand Aq
/usr/local/man/man3p/MIME::changes.3p: can't expand Aq
/usr/local/man/man3p/MIME::changes.3p: can't expand Aq
/usr/local/man/man3p/MIME::changes.3p: can't expand Aq
/usr/local/man/man3p/MIME::changes.3p: can't expand Aq
/usr/local/man/man3p/MIME::changes.3p: can't expand Aq
/usr/local/man/man3p/MIME::changes.3p: can't expand Aq
/usr/local/man/man3p/MIME::changes.3p: can't expand Aq

I have traced this to the output of "/usr/libexec/makewhatis" and into the module "/usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/Makewhatis/Unformated.pm". Tracing further appears to require a deep descent into the syntax of man pages to figure out what is going on. Still not sure if this is an issue with the Perl package itself or if "makewhatis" is missing something that it should be able to pick up.

Reporting this minor annoyance in case to see if anyone else out there has run into the same issue on this or some other package.

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