Bug#538004: perl-doc: many man pages are installed in the wrong section

[Niko Tyni]

reassign 538004 perl 5.10.0-24
merge 161507 538004
thanks

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:58:04PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:

> many man pages (almost all perl* man pages) are installed in the wrong
> section: perlop and friends are installed in section 1 (Executable
> programs or shell commands).  They should probably be installed in either
> section 7 (Miscellaneous) or section 3 (Library calls).

This is already reported as #161507, quoting Brendan:

> These are subpages split from perl(1) which is a TOC of sorts (at one
> point [4.036 and earlier] there was only perl(1)).
>
> There lies the rationale for having them in section 1--they are part of
> the documentation of /usr/bin/perl, which is an executable program.

Merging. Not sure if there's any more of a consensus now than there was
back in 2002 about the thing to do.

Cheers,
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org