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Patrick Williamsc124f4f2015-09-15 14:41:29 -05001From e18f81e69c55d698abd293e71063d6b6b275cc07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2From: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
3Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:22:25 +1100
4Subject: Replace generic man(1) instructions with Debian-specific information.
5
6Indicate that the user needs to install the perl-doc package.
7
8Patch-Name: debian/doc_info.diff
Brad Bishopd7bf8c12018-02-25 22:55:05 -05009Upstream-Status: Pending
Patrick Williamsc124f4f2015-09-15 14:41:29 -050010---
11 pod/perl.pod | 12 ++++++++++--
12 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
13
14diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod
15index 364e957..f97e103 100644
16--- a/pod/perl.pod
17+++ b/pod/perl.pod
18@@ -291,8 +291,16 @@ aux c2ph h2ph h2xs perlbug pl2pm pod2html pod2man splain xsubpp
19
20 =for buildtoc __END__
21
22-On a Unix-like system, these documentation files will usually also be
23-available as manpages for use with the F<man> program.
24+On Debian systems, you need to install the B<perl-doc> package which
25+contains the majority of the standard Perl documentation and the
26+F<perldoc> program.
27+
28+Extensive additional documentation for Perl modules is available, both
29+those distributed with Perl and third-party modules which are packaged
30+or locally installed.
31+
32+You should be able to view Perl's documentation with your man(1)
33+program or perldoc(1).
34
35 Some documentation is not available as man pages, so if a
36 cross-reference is not found by man, try it with L<perldoc>. Perldoc can