| From e18f81e69c55d698abd293e71063d6b6b275cc07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 |
| From: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> |
| Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:22:25 +1100 |
| Subject: Replace generic man(1) instructions with Debian-specific information. |
| |
| Indicate that the user needs to install the perl-doc package. |
| |
| Patch-Name: debian/doc_info.diff |
| --- |
| pod/perl.pod | 12 ++++++++++-- |
| 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) |
| |
| diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod |
| index 364e957..f97e103 100644 |
| --- a/pod/perl.pod |
| +++ b/pod/perl.pod |
| @@ -291,8 +291,16 @@ aux c2ph h2ph h2xs perlbug pl2pm pod2html pod2man splain xsubpp |
| |
| =for buildtoc __END__ |
| |
| -On a Unix-like system, these documentation files will usually also be |
| -available as manpages for use with the F<man> program. |
| +On Debian systems, you need to install the B<perl-doc> package which |
| +contains the majority of the standard Perl documentation and the |
| +F<perldoc> program. |
| + |
| +Extensive additional documentation for Perl modules is available, both |
| +those distributed with Perl and third-party modules which are packaged |
| +or locally installed. |
| + |
| +You should be able to view Perl's documentation with your man(1) |
| +program or perldoc(1). |
| |
| Some documentation is not available as man pages, so if a |
| cross-reference is not found by man, try it with L<perldoc>. Perldoc can |