Bug#948509: perl man page says to install perldoc, not perl-doc

anna fjfj109 at protonmail.com
Thu Jan 9 16:06:54 GMT 2020


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>

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