This confused me a bit to begin with but I eventually got my head around what was going on. The Debian Perl policy document says for the perl package itself (in section 1.4):
"Manual pages distributed with Perl packages must be installed into the standard directories: Manual pages for programs and scripts are installed into /usr/share/man/man1 with the extension .1. Manual pages for modules are installed into /usr/share/man/man3 with the extension .3perl." And for other packaged modules it says, (in section 3.1): "Module packages must install manual pages into the standard directories (see Documentation, Section 1.4) using the extensions .1p and .3pm to ensure that no conflict arises where a packaged module duplicates a core module." That all seems fairly clear and sensible to me. I guess it's just a case of educating lintian as to when it is looking at a core package and when it is a separate module. Stephen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
