generic-poky/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl-5.14.2/debian/doc_info.diff
Nitin A Kamble ca1311b4b1 perl: mark upstream status for all patches
All the patches imported from debian source packages are marked
accordingly.

(From OE-Core rev: 071d2142a134d1c5d39b6fedbf0e68651245581d)

Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-01-03 12:14:33 +00:00

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Upstream-Status:Inappropriate [debian patches]
From 16ebe1f5232621d8894aa6c6210fdf2fc9b54a84 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
---
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<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).
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