question about perl man sections

Alexandre Detiste alexandre.detiste at gmail.com
Tue Oct 14 00:02:51 UTC 2014


> > By the way, the content of the original page and the diversion are identical,  only the generated header change;
> > does libmodule-build-perl really need to ship a different veersion of this file at all? 
> 
> (Without having looked) I assume that they are identical if the
> versions of Module::Build and config_data in the separate
> libmodule-build-perl package and the one(s) shipped in perl-modules
> are the same, or at least the contents of config_data is the same,
> even if the versions differ slightly.
> 
> This is probably the case right now, but can change when
> libmodule-build-perl is much newer (or when a newer
> libmodule-build-perl is installed with an older perl), so shipping
> (and diverting) the files seems reasonable.

Thanks all,this well makes sense.





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