Adding module author to CC as suggested in 'perlhack'.
Original BR:
- http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=45211
Details about issue and patch at:
- http://bugs.debian.org/
440946
Issue is issues with (nested) definition lists in
lib/Pod/Html.pm
- <dt> tags are not closed
- generated code contains spurious </li> closing tags
- when other (definition) lists are nested in a definition
list, the
indentation of sublevels gets messed up because of
incorrect placement
of <dt> tags
On Friday 07 September 2007, Steven Schubiger via RT wrote:
> Since you've submitted your bug-report against 5.8.8, I
feel obligated
> to tell you that it is recommended practice to send
patches against
> latest Perl development track (also known as
'bleadperl'). There's the
> chance that the bugs are no longer present in
bleadperl. If you're
> curious nonetheless, according informations on how to
sync bleadperl and
> send according patches can be obtained through
'perlhack'.
Fine. But please remember that there is such a thing as
relatively dumb
users who are just using perl from their distro and read man
perlbug which
just says "go on, report against the version you are
running".
And then there are users who are just slightly less dumb and
say "hey, I
think I can fix that; let's give it a try" and who,
instead of keeping the
fix to themselves (or just within their own distro), decide
to share it
back with the developers.
I really don't think you can expect people to graduate from
dumb user to
bleedperl hacker overnight and I don't even think you can
expect people to
just "find" perlhack. I have only scanned
'perlhack', so I may well still
have missed some things.
Anyway:
- no, the issue is not fixed in bleedperl
- running the tests luckily proved simple; testcases even
already cover
the issues, but the current "expect" output is
broken (invalid XML)
Attached a new patch updated against bleedperl, including
updated tests.
Note that one test now throws a few warnings for a check I
added, but that
is because the content in the input file is basically
nonsense.
Cheers,
Frans Pop
(Fairly dumb user, at least when it comes to Perl, with no
aspirations to
become a Perl developer)
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