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Can you update perl version? Also, is it necessary to pin it to a version of perl?

@dpvpro Thanks! I was in the process of trying that when I saw your post. It worked great.

Working workaround:

yay -G pod2man
cd pod2man
helix (here use your editor) PKGBUILD
change string with pkgver to "pkgver=5.42.0", save and exit
build and install package - "makepkg -i"

That's all folks!

I'm stuck. Conflict: ffmpeg-obs-7.1.2-1 and ffmpeg-2:8.0-2 are in conflict. Remove ffmpeg? [y/N]

try to upgrade just this to resolve the conflict: /bin/sh: line 1: pod2man: command not found

Try to install pod2man: Version mismatch: pod2man depends on: 'perl=5.40.2' I remember I removed this because perl upgraded!

Try to remove ffmpeg-obs: error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)

I really need pod2man fixed so I can update my system.

I just remove pod2man because I do not have any package that require him.

You can check it out by command "pactree -rl pod2man"

Severe issue: It blocks update to Perl 5.42.0-1. Had to remove pod2man to be able to update.

After updating to Perl 5.42.0-1 I am not able to reinstall pod2man.

Come to think of it, looking at the script, do we even need a version check? All it does is a simple ln -s...

My version of perl is 5.42.0-1 already, do I need pod2man? I had the same problem as "dpvpro' below, I had a bunch of updates that gave me an

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) etc etc 

So I just uninstalled pod2man and obviously cannot reinstall it again because it's looking for an older version of perl??

warning: cannot resolve "perl=5.40.2", a dependency of "pod2man"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      pod2man

Update somebody. I dont have write access.

diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
index 6f21864..904ac7d 100644
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ b/.SRCINFO
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 pkgbase = pod2man
    pkgdesc = Make pod2man easily accessible
-   pkgver = 5.40.1
+   pkgver = 5.40.2
    pkgrel = 1
    url = https://perl.org/
    arch = x86_64
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index fe214d0..bd46c8a 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 # Contributor: Alexander F. Rødseth <xyproto@archlinux.org>

 pkgname=pod2man
-pkgver=5.40.1
+pkgver=5.40.2
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='Make pod2man easily accessible'
 arch=(x86_64)
 license=(GPL PerlArtistic)
 url='https://perl.org/'
-depends=(perl=$pkgver)
+depends=(perl)

 package() {
   # perl 5 places pod2man in /usr/bin/core_perl instead of /usr/bin,

:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: pod2man
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing perl (5.40.2-1) breaks dependency 'perl=5.40.1' required by pod2man
 -> Failed to install layer, rolling up to next layer.error:error installing repo packages
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing perl (5.40.2-1) breaks dependency 'perl=5.40.1' required by pod2man
 -> error installing repo packages
error installing repo packages