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+From: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
+Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:22:25 +1100
+Subject: Replace generic man(1) instructions with Debian-specific
+ information.
+
+Indicate that the user needs to install the perl-doc package.
+---
+ pod/perl.pod | 12 ++++++++++--
+ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod
+index 3f3fbe4..403e1aa 100644
+--- a/pod/perl.pod
++++ b/pod/perl.pod
+@@ -299,8 +299,16 @@ aux h2ph h2xs perlbug pl2pm pod2html pod2man splain xsubpp
+
+ =for buildtoc __END__
+
+-On a Unix-like system, these documentation files will usually also be
+-available as manpages for use with the F<man> program.
++On Debian systems, you need to install the B<perl-doc> package which
++contains the majority of the standard Perl documentation and the
++F<perldoc> program.
++
++Extensive additional documentation for Perl modules is available, both
++those distributed with Perl and third-party modules which are packaged
++or locally installed.
++
++You should be able to view Perl's documentation with your man(1)
++program or perldoc(1).
+
+ Some documentation is not available as man pages, so if a
+ cross-reference is not found by man, try it with L<perldoc>. Perldoc can