| Patrick Williams | c124f4f | 2015-09-15 14:41:29 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | From e18f81e69c55d698abd293e71063d6b6b275cc07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 |
| 2 | From: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> |
| 3 | Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:22:25 +1100 |
| 4 | Subject: Replace generic man(1) instructions with Debian-specific information. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Indicate that the user needs to install the perl-doc package. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Patch-Name: debian/doc_info.diff |
| 9 | --- |
| 10 | pod/perl.pod | 12 ++++++++++-- |
| 11 | 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) |
| 12 | |
| 13 | diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod |
| 14 | index 364e957..f97e103 100644 |
| 15 | --- a/pod/perl.pod |
| 16 | +++ b/pod/perl.pod |
| 17 | @@ -291,8 +291,16 @@ aux c2ph h2ph h2xs perlbug pl2pm pod2html pod2man splain xsubpp |
| 18 | |
| 19 | =for buildtoc __END__ |
| 20 | |
| 21 | -On a Unix-like system, these documentation files will usually also be |
| 22 | -available as manpages for use with the F<man> program. |
| 23 | +On Debian systems, you need to install the B<perl-doc> package which |
| 24 | +contains the majority of the standard Perl documentation and the |
| 25 | +F<perldoc> program. |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +Extensive additional documentation for Perl modules is available, both |
| 28 | +those distributed with Perl and third-party modules which are packaged |
| 29 | +or locally installed. |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +You should be able to view Perl's documentation with your man(1) |
| 32 | +program or perldoc(1). |
| 33 | |
| 34 | Some documentation is not available as man pages, so if a |
| 35 | cross-reference is not found by man, try it with L<perldoc>. Perldoc can |