Bug 2537126

Summary: pod2man uses obsolete fixed-font, causing troff warnings
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tim Landscheidt <tim>
Component: perl-podlatorsAssignee: Jitka Plesnikova <jplesnik>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 43CC: jplesnik, mspacek, perl-devel, ppisar
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Description Tim Landscheidt 2026-09-19 06:50:00 UTC 
With perl-podlators-6.0.2-520.fc43.noarch, pod2man's own man page and any man page it generates uses the font "CW" as fixed-font.  With groff 1.24.0, this font is no longer recognized, thus causing troff warnings "cannot select font 'CW'":

| $ man pod2man > /dev/null
| troff:<standard input>:91: warning: cannot select font 'CW'
| troff:<standard input>:96: warning: cannot select font 'CW'
| troff:<standard input>:98: warning: cannot select font 'CW'
| […]
| troff:<standard input>:402: warning: cannot select font 'CW'
| troff:<standard input>:403: warning: cannot select font 'CW'
| troff:<standard input>:420: warning: cannot select font 'CW'
| $

This bug (https://github.com/rra/podlators/issues/43) has been fixed upstream in podlators 6.1.0 by switching the default fixed-font to "CR" (https://github.com/rra/podlators/commit/e099fdf3fa07014e3df6a476242e2484b577c3d1).  It would be nice if this patch could be backported to Fedora 43ff.

Alternatively, this can be fixed in individual packages by amending the make variable POD2MAN, for example in the case of perl-podlators:

|  %build
|  perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor NO_PACKLIST=1 NO_PERLLOCAL=1
| -%{make_build}
| +%{make_build} POD2MAN='$(POD2MAN_EXE) --fixed=CR'

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-09-30 13:01:23 UTC 
FEDORA-2026-97b1e28840 (perl-podlators-6.0.2-522.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-97b1e28840
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-09-30 13:01:31 UTC 
FEDORA-2026-4336b3ed91 (perl-podlators-6.0.2-521.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-4336b3ed91
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-10-01 01:47:40 UTC 
FEDORA-2026-4336b3ed91 has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-4336b3ed91`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-4336b3ed91

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2026-10-01 02:01:09 UTC 
FEDORA-2026-97b1e28840 has been pushed to the Fedora 44 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-97b1e28840`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-97b1e28840

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2026-10-07 01:39:40 UTC 
FEDORA-2026-97b1e28840 (perl-podlators-6.0.2-522.fc44) has been pushed to the Fedora 44 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2026-10-16 16:48:43 UTC 
FEDORA-2026-4336b3ed91 (perl-podlators-6.0.2-521.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.