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1Upstream-Status:Inappropriate [debian patches]
2From 16ebe1f5232621d8894aa6c6210fdf2fc9b54a84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
3From: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
4Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:22:25 +1100
5Subject: Replace generic man(1) instructions with Debian-specific
6 information.
7
8Indicate that the user needs to install the perl-doc package.
9
10Patch-Name: debian/doc_info.diff
11---
12 pod/perl.pod | 12 ++++++++++--
13 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
14
15diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod
16index 29cabf1..529ad6f 100644
17--- a/pod/perl.pod
18+++ b/pod/perl.pod
19@@ -261,8 +261,16 @@ For ease of access, the Perl manual has been split up into several sections.
20 perlwin32 Perl notes for Windows
21
22
23-On a Unix-like system, these documentation files will usually also be
24-available as manpages for use with the F<man> program.
25+On Debian systems, you need to install the B<perl-doc> package which
26+contains the majority of the standard Perl documentation and the
27+F<perldoc> program.
28+
29+Extensive additional documentation for Perl modules is available, both
30+those distributed with Perl and third-party modules which are packaged
31+or locally installed.
32+
33+You should be able to view Perl's documentation with your man(1)
34+program or perldoc(1).
35
36 In general, if something strange has gone wrong with your program and you're
37 not sure where you should look for help, try the B<-w> switch first. It will