perldoc -f y => Hey! The above document had some coding errors

Bug #545568 reported by jimav
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: perl

There is a syntax error in the perlfunc man page, or an ancestor file, somewhere around the documentation for the 'y' operator, as indicated by the following:

$ perldoc -f y
       y/// The transliteration operator. Same as "tr///". See perlop.

POD ERRORS
       Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below:

       Around line 7:
           =back doesn't take any parameters, but you said =back =back

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 23 16:00:25 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: perl-doc 5.10.0-24ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: perl
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

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jimav (james-avera) wrote :
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Mike Doherty (doherty) wrote :

This doesn't appear to be an issue with perlfunc.pod, but rather with perldoc (Pod::Perldoc)?

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