Then again, the line "=begin pod" is specific to Perl6 pod (and mandatory). Such a line does not make much sense in Perl5 pod.
I wonder if this new behavior of pod2man is a new bug or an old bug that has been fixed recently :-/ All the best -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://search.cpan.org/~ddumont/ http://ddumont.wordpress.com/ -o- irc: dod at irc.debian.org