Raw content of script is shown instead of POD

[ikedas]

• On Debian (at least Debian 11 bullseye, afaik), if perl has been installed but perl-doc package which includes perldoc has not, /usr/bin/perldoc is replaced with a placeholder as below:

  #!/bin/sh
  # place-holder, diverted by perl-doc
  echo You need to install the perl-doc package to use this program. >&2
  exit 1
  

• On the other hand, Pod::Usage uses perldoc by default to format POD in the script.
  However, if perldoc returns non-zero exit status, Pod::Usage try to fallback to the pager.

As a result, raw content of the script is shown instead of POD section.

[marekro]

I am afraid this is the best we can do here. What is your expectation, what Pod::Usage should do instead?

[ikedas]

Hi @marekro ,
Thank you for your attention to our issue. We have resolved this issue by a workaround on our project:
sympa-community/sympa#1832