Bug#643690: perl policy unclear about the section for manpages

2011-12-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Salvatore Bonaccorso writes: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:06:31AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> The first section about documentation and manual page extensions >> only applies to packages generated from the perl source package. >> Make that explicit and add a reference to the section discussing >

Bug#643690: perl policy unclear about the section for manpages

2011-12-25 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:06:31AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > The first section about documentation and manual page extensions > only applies to packages generated from the perl source package. > Make that explicit and add a reference to the section discussing > module packages. > --- > perl

Bug#643690: perl policy unclear about the section for manpages

2011-12-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:06:31 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Yes, this tripped me up too. Here's a proposed patch. Seconds or further > discussion? I'll copy debian-perl as well for further review. > >From f6938d47f9250f672586191cc00988e9e61cea06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Russ Allbery >

Bug#643690: perl policy unclear about the section for manpages

2011-12-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > The perl policy makes confusing statements about the section that manpages > should be installed in: > 2.4. Documentation > -- > Manual pages distributed with Perl packages must be installed into the > standard directories: > [...] >

Bug#643690: perl policy unclear about the section for manpages

2011-09-28 Thread Steve Langasek
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.2.0 The perl policy makes confusing statements about the section that manpages should be installed in: 2.4. Documentation -- Manual pages distributed with Perl packages must be installed into the standard directories: [...]