[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs pm_podescapes

[Philip Brown]

On 9/2/10, Peter Bonivart <bonivart at opencsw.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
>> FYI there's a problem with pm_podescapes.
>>
>> ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 8: Duplicate entry
>> '/opt/csw/share/man/man3/Pod::Escapes.3perl' for key 1
>>
>>
>> It's also in perldoc.
>>
>> So please either submit an updated perldoc, or remove from podescapes
>
> First I went to fix this by removing the man page from podescapes but
> when I took a closer look I see that 5.10.1 (CSWperl) already contains
> the latest podescapes (1.04 from 2004-05-07) so I see no need for this
> package at all.
>
> How to proceed now?
>

well, if Perldoc is part of official 5.10.1 perl, then just officially
request that the package be removed and marked as obsolete.
"official", in this case, is probably best pursued as "email the
maintainers list", so it gets archived properly.