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From e18f81e69c55d698abd293e71063d6b6b275cc07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
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
Upstream-Status: Pending
---
pod/perl.pod | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod
index 364e957..f97e103 100644
--- a/pod/perl.pod
+++ b/pod/perl.pod
@@ -291,8 +291,16 @@ aux c2ph h2ph h2xs perlbug pl2pm pod2html pod2man splain xsubpp
=for buildtoc __END__
-On a Unix-like system, these documentation files will usually also be
-available as manpages for use with the F<man> program.
+On Debian systems, you need to install the B<perl-doc> package which
+contains the majority of the standard Perl documentation and the
+F<perldoc> 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).
Some documentation is not available as man pages, so if a
cross-reference is not found by man, try it with L<perldoc>. Perldoc can
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