Bug#1121225: perl: Issue in instmodsh.1 (Debian patch)

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Hello Niko,
Am Sat, Sep 05, 2026 at 11:47:38AM +0300 schrieb Niko Tyni:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 09:07:43AM +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > Package: perl
> > Version: 5.40.1-6
> > Severity: minor
> > 
> > Man page: instmodsh.1
> > Issue: CW<\(C`dpkg\(C'> → B<dpkg>(1)
> > 
> > "On Debian system, B and B modules are managed by "
> > "CW<\(C`dpkg\*(C'>."
> > 
> > This is part of https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/23924, but as this comes from Debian[1], I'll report it here.
> 
> Hi, sorry for the late reply. I don't quite understand what you are
> asking for. Adding a (1) suffix to facilitate hyperlinking to the dpkg
> man page ?

Yes.

> The source in cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/bin/instmodsh is POD
> markup, and it currently reads
> 
>   On Debian system, B<core> and B<vendor> modules are managed by C<dpkg>. 
> 
> I suspect L<dpkg(1)> is what we want. That would render to
> 
>   \fBdpkg\fR\|(1)
> 
> with pod2man, and
> 
>   <a href="http://man.he.net/man1/dpkg">dpkg(1)</a>
> 
> with pod2html.

Yes.

Thanks for handling and sorry for beeing too brief.

Greetings

        Helge

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