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In f2ee4cb897ec9dd3338abcd0e9a42cb41ce9a173[0] upstream worked around reported issues with perldoc by changing the default formatter to ToText (from ToTerm) and also getting rid of automatically setting pager options (like -R to less). This, of course, also removed all bold/underline/etc. from the output, making perldoc less readable. - From reading through the various related bugs (e.g., [1]) it seems like they switched away from using groff (via ToMan) because Mac OS Sierra has a groff without Unicode support. That obviously doesn't apply to Debian, so it seems we could have nice rendering without any pager workarounds just by changing the default back to Pod::Perldoc::ToMan. Or at least a note in README.Debian about adding something like one of these to .bashrc: export PERLDOC=-oTerm PERLDOC_PAGER='less -R' # works like Stretch, Jessie export PERLDOC=-oMan # works like Wheezy [0]: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/f2ee4cb897ec9dd3338abcd0e9a42cb41ce9a173 [1]: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=120229 - -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (130, 'unstable-debug'), (130, 'unstable'), (120, 'experimental-debug'), (120, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages perl-doc depends on: ii perl 5.28.1-3 perl-doc recommends no packages. Versions of packages perl-doc suggests: ii groff-base 1.22.3-10 ii konqueror [man-browser] 4:18.04.0-1+b2 ii man-db [man-browser] 2.8.4-3 - -- no debconf information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHMEARECADMWIQTlAc7j4DAtSNRJJ0z7P4jCVepZ/gUCXCXtuhUcYW50aG9ueUBk ZXJvYmVydC5uZXQACgkQ+z+IwlXqWf4WmgCfeiTVl76yHBuWJTrEy3XJfMhQorkA n02XnQ95YomQyzy/WHvImWA5MD9w =dQql -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----