Unable to compile due to po4a/podchecker

[lordaro]

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)

[lordaro (charlespigott)]

actually, while i'm at it, here is the patch i've 'accumulated' for forcing devscripts to get this far in the compliation

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[lordaro (charlespigott)]

ok, i eventually got bored and decided to fix all the problems

attached patch fixes the build on arch linux. not all parts of it will be necessary

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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 <email address hidden> Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:53:57 -0400