Description of Problem: The perltoc manpage is totally garbled. How Reproducible: Only on days of the week ending in y Steps to Reproduce: 1. man perltoc Actual Results: Total garbage is displayed by man Expected Results: The perltoc manpage in easily readable format like other manpages Additional Information: This wizard thing is a bit overboard for some bugs (ie this one), but nonetheless has a humorous aspect. ;o)
This seems to format fine when using the perldoc command instead of man. Example: perldoc perltoc man perltoc These offer two different formats. Seems like man is not registering properly certain characters such as new lines, etc.
this is possibly a bug in pod2man. a more recent version ships with perl 5.6.1, which is now in rawhide. both perldoc and man to view perltoc works for me with this rpm