Package: perl Version: 5.10.0-7 Severity: normal Filing a bug about this so we don't forget about it. Brendan, please comment and possibly reassign to man-db (or debian-policy, I guess) if you think that's the right place to fix it.
>From http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2008/03/msg00088.html : On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:15:42PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:51:46PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > > While manpages for separately packaged modules (.3pm) are preferred > > over those bundled with the Perl core (.3perl), this is not the case > > for separately packaged scripts (.1p) vs. bundled ones (.1). > > > > This is a real problem with libmodule-corelist-perl and perl 5.10.0: > > with both installed, 'man corelist' gives the older manual which > > doesn't document the new '-d' option. Explicitly asking for the newer > > one with eg. 'man -S 1p corelist' works fine, of course. [...] > > Why was section 1 chosen in the Perl policy in the first place? > > Is there a reason why '1perl' wouldn't work? > > I suggested this in > http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2001/03/msg00008.html but Brendan > wasn't keen (see the follow-up). > > If Brendan wants to revisit this decision in light of this problem, > that'd be great; otherwise I'm actually quite happy to put 1p in front > of 1 in the search order. Let me know. Cheers, -- Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
