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Bug#1021955: pod2man: runaway italics inside C<>

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Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net> writes:

> Package: perl
> Version: 5.34.0-5

> pod2man misformats I<> inside C<>.

> For example, if you run:

>     printf '=head1 FOO\n\nC<Only I<foo> should be italicized, not the rest>!\n' | pod2man - | man -l -

> not only "foo" is italicized, but also everything up to the closing quote
> character.

Yeah, I'm moderately surprised that this went uncaught for this long (and
I think it may be a bug in groff, which if recently introduced may explain
that).  This was fixed by:

https://git.eyrie.org/?p=perl/podlators.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5cbfbaee05ebfc5eb30268521159a9df7fe2307

but the fix is not very trivial.  I have a few other major changes that I
need to finish and then can release podlators 5.00 and start the process
of getting this into Perl core.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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Bug#1021955: pod2man: runaway italics inside C<> Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net> - 2022-10-17 23:30 +0200
  Bug#1021955: pod2man: runaway italics inside C<> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2022-10-18 02:00 +0200
    Bug#1021955: pod2man: runaway italics inside C<> Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net> - 2022-10-18 19:00 +0200
  Bug#1021955: pod2man: runaway italics inside C<> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2022-11-26 18:20 +0100

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