Bug#206211: perl-doc: doesn't fall back to -t if no groff is present

[Niko Tyni]

Control: retitle -1 perl-doc: revisit the groff suggestion

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:52:41PM +0000, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: perl-doc
> Version: 5.8.0-19
> Severity: minor
 
> perldoc LWP gives the pod source if no groff is present on the system
> while perldoc -t LWP correctly renders the man page. Please consider
> falling back to -t mode if groff cannot be found

This was fixed as a side effect of Pod::Perldoc switching its
default formatter to the "ToTerm" backend instead of "ToMan"
in 3.20, bundled with Perl 5.20.

> Additionally, the package suggests groff, but works fine if only
> groff-base is installed. There is a possibility that the suggestion
> could be harmlessly changed to groff-base

I see the groff suggestion is still there. I expect groff-base
would be enough. I wouldn't really like to drop it altogether
as 'perldoc -oman' still uses it.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org