Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2019-11-17 21:50:54) > Ah, indeed - I wasn't aware of that (and wonder if other tools in Debian > suffer from same issue). > > I suggest look at the package rename - from a quick experimentation it > seems to show source only for its more exotic --man option and not its > --help option. > > Even if keeping code as-is, I'd argue that it makes more sense to relax > to only recommend perl-doc: Core functionality is unaffected and nothing > explodes, it just "looks weird".
I think there is an easy solution. It indeed seems that executing pod2usage() from Pod::Usage with -verbose=>1 does *not* require the package perl-doc and prints the sections "synopsis" and "options" which I think is everything that can be expected of the --help output. Only with -verbose=>2 is the perl-doc package needed to avoid printing out the source code. So after changing the call to pod2usage() from -verbose=>2 to -verbose=>1 for the --help output we can completely drop the perl-doc dependency. Thanks! cheers, josch
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