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authorDavid Prévot <david@tilapin.org>2010-10-19 18:54:32 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2010-11-02 22:22:46 -0400
commit0952ac2e9995da8abe149f3e42b3b8d9d2797112 (patch)
tree06af28756b07653e12b9d2e425599080730eb763 /dh_perl
parent4e30945a188944232cec97f8aac8902ec9d56530 (diff)
downloaddebhelper-0952ac2e9995da8abe149f3e42b3b8d9d2797112.tar.gz
Apply manual pages conventions
As advised in man(1), always use: B<bold text> type exactly as shown. I<italic text> replace with appropriate argument. s/debian/Debian/ if needed. s/ / / also. s/perl/Perl/ s/python/Python/ and s/emacs/Emacs/ too.
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diff --git a/dh_perl b/dh_perl
index 5739ca9f..bf2506c5 100755
--- a/dh_perl
+++ b/dh_perl
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
=head1 NAME
-dh_perl - calculates perl dependencies and cleans up after MakeMaker
+dh_perl - calculates Perl dependencies and cleans up after MakeMaker
=cut
@@ -13,20 +13,20 @@ use Debian::Debhelper::Dh_Lib;
=head1 SYNOPSIS
-B<dh_perl> [S<I<debhelper options>>] [B<-d>] [S<I<library dirs ...>>]
+B<dh_perl> [S<I<debhelper options>>] [B<-d>] [S<I<library dirs> ...>]
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-dh_perl is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating
-the ${perl:Depends} substitutions and adding them to substvars files.
+B<dh_perl> is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating
+the B<${perl:Depends}> substitutions and adding them to substvars files.
-The program will look at perl scripts and modules in your package,
-and will use this information to generate a dependency on perl or
-perlapi. The dependency will be substituted into your package's control
-file wherever you place the token "${perl:Depends}".
+The program will look at Perl scripts and modules in your package,
+and will use this information to generate a dependency on B<perl> or
+B<perlapi>. The dependency will be substituted into your package's F<control>
+file wherever you place the token B<${perl:Depends}>.
-dh_perl also cleans up empty directories that MakeMaker can generate when
-installing perl modules.
+B<dh_perl> also cleans up empty directories that MakeMaker can generate when
+installing Perl modules.
=head1 OPTIONS
@@ -34,26 +34,26 @@ installing perl modules.
=item B<-d>
-In some specific cases you may want to depend on perl-base rather than the
-full perl package. If so, you can pass the -d option to make dh_perl generate
+In some specific cases you may want to depend on B<perl-base> rather than the
+full B<perl> package. If so, you can pass the -d option to make B<dh_perl> generate
a dependency on the correct base package. This is only necessary for some
packages that are included in the base system.
-Note that this flag may cause no dependency on perl-base to be generated at
-all. perl-base is Essential, so its dependency can be left out, unless a
+Note that this flag may cause no dependency on B<perl-base> to be generated at
+all. B<perl-base> is Essential, so its dependency can be left out, unless a
versioned dependency is needed.
=item B<-V>
By default, scripts and architecture independent modules don't depend
-on any specific version of perl. The -V option causes the current
-version of the perl (or perl-base with -d) package to be specified.
+on any specific version of B<perl>. The B<-V> option causes the current
+version of the B<perl> (or B<perl-base> with B<-d>) package to be specified.
=item I<library dirs>
-If your package installs perl modules in non-standard
-directories, you can make dh_perl check those directories by passing their
-names on the command line. It will only check the vendorlib and vendorarch
+If your package installs Perl modules in non-standard
+directories, you can make B<dh_perl> check those directories by passing their
+names on the command line. It will only check the F<vendorlib> and F<vendorarch>
directories by default.
=back