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and subject line Re: Bug#948509: perl man page says to install perldoc, not
perl-doc
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regarding perl man page says to install perldoc, not perl-doc
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Package: perl
Version: 5.28.1-6
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The perl documentation package in "man perl" is wrong. The package name is
perl-doc, not perldoc.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages perl depends on:
ii dpkg 1.19.7
ii libperl5.28 5.28.1-6
ii perl-base 5.28.1-6
ii perl-modules-5.28 5.28.1-6
Versions of packages perl recommends:
ii netbase 5.6
Versions of packages perl suggests:
pn libb-debug-perl <none>
pn liblocale-codes-perl <none>
pn libterm-readline-gnu-perl | libterm-readline-perl-perl <none>
ii make 4.2.1-1.2
pn perl-doc <none>
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 09:09:28PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> Control: tag -1 + moreinfo
>
> On Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:06:54 -0500, anna wrote:
>
> > The perl documentation package in "man perl" is wrong. The package name is
> > perl-doc, not perldoc.
>
> Thanks for your bug report.
>
> Could you please tell us which part of / sentence in the manpage you
> consider to be wrong?
>
> A quick search comes up with
>
> On Debian systems, you need to install the perl-doc package which
> contains the majority of the standard Perl documentation and the
> perldoc program.
>
> which seems correct and matches your expectations. Besides that, the
> perldoc program is mentioned several times.
Indeed, I can't see any other reference to the package name in "man perl".
Given the lack of response to Gregor's inquiry, I'm closing this. Please
don't hesitate to comment if we're missing something.
--
Niko Tyni [email protected]
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