build depending on presence of pod2man

Hi all,
  I've noticed that a successful build requires the presence on the
build-host of pod2man (for the manual to
basic_auth/DB/basic_db_auth.8).
While it is normally installed with PERL, and while PERL is already a
build prerequisite, does it make sense to also require pod2man or
could we try to find a way to skip this dependency?

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    /kinkie