Upstream-Status:Inappropriate [debian patches] From 16ebe1f5232621d8894aa6c6210fdf2fc9b54a84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brendan O'Dea 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 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod index 29cabf1..529ad6f 100644 --- a/pod/perl.pod +++ b/pod/perl.pod @@ -261,8 +261,16 @@ For ease of access, the Perl manual has been split up into several sections. perlwin32 Perl notes for Windows -On a Unix-like system, these documentation files will usually also be -available as manpages for use with the F program. +On Debian systems, you need to install the B package which +contains the majority of the standard Perl documentation and the +F 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). In general, if something strange has gone wrong with your program and you're not sure where you should look for help, try the B<-w> switch first. It will