Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> writes: > perldoc from Perl 5.18 doesn't work if groff is not installed: > | $ perldoc perldoc > | Use of uninitialized value $roffer in concatenation (.) or string at > /usr/share/perl/5.18/Pod/Perldoc/ToMan.pm line 53. > | Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at > /usr/share/perl/5.18/Pod/Perldoc/ToMan.pm line 303. > | Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at > /usr/share/perl/5.18/Pod/Perldoc/ToMan.pm line 308. > | Error while formatting with Pod::Perldoc::ToMan: > | no nroffer!? > | at /usr/share/perl/5.18/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 1346. > | > | > | at /usr/bin/perldoc line 10. > | Got a 0-length file from /usr/share/perl/5.18/pod/perldoc.pod via > Pod::Perldoc::ToMan!? > | > | at /usr/bin/perldoc line 10.
> This is a regression: previous versions of perldoc displayed raw POD in > such situation, which might be suboptimal (see bug #206211), but is still > better than nothing. Ideally, it should fall back to Pod::Text (aka perldoc -t), which is always available and doesn't rely on any external formatter. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
