[Bug 1226318] Re: Unable to compile due to po4a/podchecker

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This bug was fixed in the package devscripts - 2.13.4

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devscripts (2.13.4) unstable; urgency=low


  [ James McCoy ]
  * Document which scripts use libdistro-info-perl.  (Closes: #708311)
  * Make curl return a proper exit code for HTTP errors.  (Closes: #720508)
  * mk-build-deps: Define the deb's version when parsing a debian/control
    file.  (Closes: #721939)
  * checkbashisms: Sort the keys of the bashisms hashes to provide
    consistently ordered output.  This avoids false positive failures in the
    test suite.

  [ Charles Pigott ]
  * Fix POD issues.  (LP: #1226318, Closes: #719828)

  [ Translation updates ]
  * French, David Prévot.

 -- James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>  Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:53:57 -0400

** Changed in: devscripts (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  Unable to compile due to po4a/podchecker

Status in “devscripts” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Hi, i'm attempting to package 2.13.3 for arch linux (best not ask) and
  am running into some problems while attempting to compile it:

  podchecker fr/dcontrol.fr.pl
  *** ERROR: Spurious =pod command at line 15 in file fr/dcontrol.fr.pl
  fr/dcontrol.fr.pl has 1 pod syntax error.
  make[2]: *** [fr/dcontrol.fr.1] Error 1

  
  I'm not very familiar with perl, but as far as i can tell, it's because the start of the documentation (pod?) for dcontrol.fr (and others) begins with "=pod"

  this then gets transferred into fr/dcontrol.fr.pl AFTER the =encoding
  line, which subsequently causes podchecker to have a fit

  hope that explains it well enough

  
  (perl= v5.18.1)

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