Bug#891339: libglib-object-introspection-perl: Documentation should make a note that the base library devel packages must be installed

Sun Feb 25 13:05:55 UTC 2018

> Utility perli11ndoc requires the *.gir files for introspected libraries to be
> installed to view documentation. I can't find anywhere in the documentation for this
> package that notes that the .gir files can be installed with the -dev packages for
> base libraries, i.e. libgtk-3-dev must be installed to get the gir file and
> documentation for Gtk-3.0 (libgtk3-perl) in perl. To make this simpler for new users
> who do not otherwise need the -dev package installed but do want documentation in
> perl, it seems that the package documentation should make a note of this requirement.

Agreed. README.Debian would be ideally suited for that. Are you
interested in drafting this?