diff --git a/perl/perl-Pod-Coverage/perl-Pod-Coverage.SlackBuild b/perl/perl-Pod-Coverage/perl-Pod-Coverage.SlackBuild
index c7f0f604e0..55d2cffd28 100644
--- a/perl/perl-Pod-Coverage/perl-Pod-Coverage.SlackBuild
+++ b/perl/perl-Pod-Coverage/perl-Pod-Coverage.SlackBuild
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 SRCNAM=Pod-Coverage
 PRGNAM=perl-$SRCNAM
-VERSION=${VERSION:-0.20}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.23}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -64,11 +64,11 @@ rm -rf $SRCNAM-$VERSION
 tar xvf $CWD/$SRCNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
 cd $SRCNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
-find . \
+find -L . \
  \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o -perm 511 \) \
  -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
- \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \
- -exec chmod 644 {} \;
+ \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
+ -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
 
 perl Makefile.PL \
   PREFIX=/usr \
diff --git a/perl/perl-Pod-Coverage/perl-Pod-Coverage.info b/perl/perl-Pod-Coverage/perl-Pod-Coverage.info
index f93158ffff..39a052e0e7 100644
--- a/perl/perl-Pod-Coverage/perl-Pod-Coverage.info
+++ b/perl/perl-Pod-Coverage/perl-Pod-Coverage.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="perl-Pod-Coverage"
-VERSION="0.20"
-HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~rclamp/Pod-Coverage-0.20/"
-DOWNLOAD="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/R/RC/RCLAMP/Pod-Coverage-0.20.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="292a5b8d3a93597af441d3e6467b8ad6"
+VERSION="0.23"
+HOMEPAGE="http://search.cpan.org/~rclamp/Pod-Coverage-0.23/"
+DOWNLOAD="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/R/RC/RCLAMP/Pod-Coverage-0.23.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="12229e553ee7887680ee3db11da5ee52"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="perl-Devel-Symdump"