diff --git a/Porting/Maintainers.pl b/Porting/Maintainers.pl
index c8b8381bc3bb..e3d39786f22b 100755
--- a/Porting/Maintainers.pl
+++ b/Porting/Maintainers.pl
@@ -989,7 +989,15 @@ package Maintainers;
             qr{^\.github/dependabot\.yml},
             qr{^\.github/workflows/build\.yaml},
         ],
-
+        'CUSTOMIZED'   => [
+            # https://github.com/rra/podlators/pull/28
+            'lib/Pod/Man.pm',
+            'lib/Pod/ParseLink.pm',
+            'lib/Pod/Text.pm',
+            'lib/Pod/Text/Color.pm',
+            'lib/Pod/Text/Overstrike.pm',
+            'lib/Pod/Text/Termcap.pm'
+        ],
         'MAP' => {
             ''                 => 'cpan/podlators/',
             # this file lives outside the cpan/ directory
diff --git a/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Man.pm b/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Man.pm
index 5ed95bbc90d2..7f2335d176b3 100644
--- a/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Man.pm
+++ b/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Man.pm
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ BEGIN {
 }
 
 our @ISA = qw(Pod::Simple);
-our $VERSION = '5.01';
+our $VERSION = '5.01_01';
 
 # Ensure that $Pod::Simple::nbsp and $Pod::Simple::shy are available.  Code
 # taken from Pod::Simple 3.32, but was only added in 3.30.
@@ -865,6 +865,7 @@ sub start_document {
     if ($$self{ENCODING}) {
         $$self{ENCODE} = 1;
         eval {
+            require PerlIO;
             my @options = (output => 1, details => 1);
             my @layers = PerlIO::get_layers (*{$$self{output_fh}}, @options);
             if ($layers[-1] && ($layers[-1] & PerlIO::F_UTF8 ())) {
diff --git a/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/ParseLink.pm b/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/ParseLink.pm
index 83bc3f7565b2..d8e60b7b5177 100644
--- a/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/ParseLink.pm
+++ b/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/ParseLink.pm
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ use Exporter;
 
 our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
 our @EXPORT = qw(parselink);
-our $VERSION = '5.01';
+our $VERSION = '5.01_01';
 
 ##############################################################################
 # Implementation
diff --git a/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text.pm b/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text.pm
index 83a7ce22a823..79ddf07af40b 100644
--- a/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text.pm
+++ b/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text.pm
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ use Exporter ();
 use Pod::Simple ();
 
 our @ISA = qw(Pod::Simple Exporter);
-our $VERSION = '5.01';
+our $VERSION = '5.01_01';
 
 # We have to export pod2text for backward compatibility.
 our @EXPORT = qw(pod2text);
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ sub start_document {
     # disable encoding.
     $$self{ENCODE} = 1;
     eval {
+        require PerlIO;
         my @options = (output => 1, details => 1);
         my $flag = (PerlIO::get_layers ($$self{output_fh}, @options))[-1];
         if ($flag && ($flag & PerlIO::F_UTF8 ())) {
diff --git a/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text/Color.pm b/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text/Color.pm
index 2d656d6a3dc3..f6cde6f6c9a7 100644
--- a/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text/Color.pm
+++ b/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text/Color.pm
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ use Pod::Text ();
 use Term::ANSIColor qw(color colored);
 
 our @ISA = qw(Pod::Text);
-our $VERSION = '5.01';
+our $VERSION = '5.01_01';
 
 ##############################################################################
 # Overrides
diff --git a/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text/Overstrike.pm b/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text/Overstrike.pm
index 3135c8863cba..ee88b959855e 100644
--- a/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text/Overstrike.pm
+++ b/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text/Overstrike.pm
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ use warnings;
 use Pod::Text ();
 
 our @ISA = qw(Pod::Text);
-our $VERSION = '5.01';
+our $VERSION = '5.01_01';
 
 ##############################################################################
 # Overrides
diff --git a/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text/Termcap.pm b/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text/Termcap.pm
index d4b74874d87a..43530709d91c 100644
--- a/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text/Termcap.pm
+++ b/cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text/Termcap.pm
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ use POSIX ();
 use Term::Cap;
 
 our @ISA = qw(Pod::Text);
-our $VERSION = '5.01';
+our $VERSION = '5.01_01';
 
 ##############################################################################
 # Overrides
diff --git a/t/porting/customized.dat b/t/porting/customized.dat
index 6113f65296c9..cddecf773bc1 100644
--- a/t/porting/customized.dat
+++ b/t/porting/customized.dat
@@ -15,4 +15,10 @@ Time::Piece cpan/Time-Piece/Piece.pm 8cec8b66183ceddb9bf2b6af35dcdd345bc9adfa
 Time::Piece cpan/Time-Piece/Piece.xs 543152540ee17788a638b2c5746b86c3d04401d1
 Win32API::File cpan/Win32API-File/File.pm 8fd212857f821cb26648878b96e57f13bf21b99e
 Win32API::File cpan/Win32API-File/File.xs beb870fed4490d2faa547b4a8576b8d64d1d27c5
+podlators cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Man.pm 69b80c16ed960c222ab6726cde177cf2949d366d
+podlators cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/ParseLink.pm e84ac4d8121c7ed733a23f5ead5c2481f34dafa3
+podlators cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text.pm 367a5ec329148637c83ddcf072f929ba1e9eb953
+podlators cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text/Color.pm f1401820e6799270bdd1b4513be9c849521fb533
+podlators cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text/Overstrike.pm 9def24cfb97743ac6d935fd84a86ae560e70c9ca
+podlators cpan/podlators/lib/Pod/Text/Termcap.pm b86e1cf3a01cc6084436ae61b2e97fcffe064817
 version cpan/version/lib/version.pm 8080cfe1fb21d5248c8ff5133b298d249d11e8e8