Re: Handling of L<Module> in Pod::Man

2009/3/21 Russ Allbery <[email protected]>:
> (I'm subscribed to pod-people but not perl5-porters.)
>
> Historically, Pod::Man renders L<Module> or L<perlpod> as just "Module" or
> "perlpod" in the document (replacing the very historical rendering as "the
> Module manpage", which caused various issues).  I've received a request
> (CPAN RT #43700) to change that rendering to Module(3) since some man
> programs do something useful with the cross-reference.
>
> I'm not entirely sure whether I should do this or not.

Some OS vendors install those in a special 3pm (RedHat) or 3perl
(debian) section. So (3) is already too much for a guess. So I would
agree with the following statement:

> I could just bail and keep doing what I'm doing now and not add a section
> number.