summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-5.14.2/debian/doc_info.diff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-5.14.2/debian/doc_info.diff')
-rw-r--r--meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-5.14.2/debian/doc_info.diff36
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-5.14.2/debian/doc_info.diff b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-5.14.2/debian/doc_info.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a118da341c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-5.14.2/debian/doc_info.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
1From 16ebe1f5232621d8894aa6c6210fdf2fc9b54a84 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
5 information.
6
7Indicate that the user needs to install the perl-doc package.
8
9Patch-Name: debian/doc_info.diff
10---
11 pod/perl.pod | 12 ++++++++++--
12 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
13
14diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod
15index 29cabf1..529ad6f 100644
16--- a/pod/perl.pod
17+++ b/pod/perl.pod
18@@ -261,8 +261,16 @@ For ease of access, the Perl manual has been split up into several sections.
19 perlwin32 Perl notes for Windows
20
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 In general, if something strange has gone wrong with your program and you're
36 not sure where you should look for help, try the B<-w> switch first. It will