On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 11:54 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > fair enough, but should i submit a bug report for what seems to be a > > (minor) bug in the ubuntu packaging? running "publican --help" > > clearly suggests that "publican --man" is a valid invocation, but if > > you run that latter command, what you get is (weirdly) a listing of > > the /usr/bin/publican script, followed by: > > > > You need to install the perl-doc package to use this program. > > > > installing perl-doc fixes the issue, so shouldn't the ubuntu publican > > package have perl-doc as a required dependency? (sorry, i realize > > that this is more a ubuntu issue than a publican issue.) > > One might wonder why publican calls perldoc instead of just running "man > publican".
Publican uses the Pod::Usage module for this, which is the "correct way" AIUI for cross platform support. > Adding perl-doc as dependency seems like overkill given that publican > --man is not really a critical feature. I might add it to Suggests but > then it makes no difference as far as APT is concerned. It sounds like the Pod::Usage module has a deps issue, this is the line that will be causing this issue: pod2usage( -verbose => 2, -exit => 0 ) if $man; > BTW, both Debian and Ubuntu have bugtrackers for the packaging problems. > Please use those for such problems. :) Cheers, Jeff. -- Jeff Fearn <[email protected]> Software Engineer Engineering Operations Red Hat, Inc Freedom ... courage ... Commitment ... ACCOUNTABILITY Sure our competitors can rebuild the source but can they engage the customer the same way? -wmealing _______________________________________________ publican-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/publican-list Wiki: https://fedorahosted.org/publican
