Bug#567061: perl-doc: No /usr/bin/perldoc after Etch->Lenny Upgrade

[Patrik Schindler]

Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.10.0-19lenny2
Severity: important

With Debian-Etch there was a perldoc-Program for reading (for example)
integrated docs in Spamassassin-Modules. After upgrading to Debian Lenny, it's
gone.

There's a /usr/bin/perldoc.stub which emits the following message:
  You need to install the perl-doc package to use this program.

Unfortunately, exactly this perldoc.stub comes from the already installed
perl-doc package:

hostname ~ $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/perldoc.stub
diversion by perl-doc from: /usr/bin/perldoc
diversion by perl-doc to: /usr/bin/perldoc.stub

So I don't have a working perldoc to read docs and can't find a substitute for
it.

On a second, also upgraded machine with no previous install of perldoc, there
was this very same stub but named perldoc. Installing perl-doc on that box did
the right thing and perldoc was available again.

The Problem on the first machine has been fixed with a reinstall of perl-doc.
So I think, it's a package-bug.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages perl-doc depends on:
ii  perl                     5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

perl-doc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages perl-doc suggests:
ii  groff                        1.19.2-poc1 GNU troff text-formatting system
ii  man-db [man-browser]         2.5.2-4     on-line manual pager

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