Bug#114060: perl-doc: perl-doc should include docs in info format

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:38:43AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 02:06:10PM +0200, Leonard Stiles wrote:
> >Package: perl-doc
> >Version: 5.6.1-5
> >Severity: wishlist
> >
> >It would be nice (especially for Emacs users) if the Perl
> >documentation were also available in info format, either in the main
> >perl-doc package or in a separate package.  In particular, cperl-mode
> >relies on the perl info documentation for its documentation lookup
> >functionality.
> 
> podlators doesn't include a pod2texinfo converter I'm afraid.
> 
> There is a comment the cperl-mode.el giving a [defunct] URL from which
> the info pages may be fetched, and the results of some mailing list
> serches suggested that the conversion procedure for those was done by a
> hacked, old version of pod2html + hand editing.
> 
> I'll leave this open as wishlist, but don't hold your breath.

It just so happens that someone made a pod2texi convertor recently:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/texinfo-devel/2012-01/msg00064.html

so maybe this bug will one day be resolvable.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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