dh_link: Clarify that the leading slash is optional

Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/dh_link b/dh_link
index 815c81db..ac67109a 100755
--- a/dh_link
+++ b/dh_link
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ are the symlinks that will be created (called B<link name> by
 L<ln(1)>). There B<must> be an equal number of source and destination
 files specified.
 
-Be sure you B<do> specify the absolute path (without leading slash) to
-both the source and destination files (unlike you would do if you were
-using something like L<ln(1)>).
+Be sure you B<do> specify the absolute path to both the source and
+destination files (unlike you would do if you were using something
+like L<ln(1)>).  Please note that the leading slash is optional.
 
 B<dh_link> will generate symlinks that comply with Debian policy - absolute
 when policy says they should be absolute, and relative links with as short
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ L<ln(1)>). Thus the pairs of source and destination files in each line
 are give in the same order as they would be given to L<ln(1)>.
 
 In contrast to L<ln(1)>, source and destination paths must be absolute
-without a leading slash.
+(the leading slash is optional).
 
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