perldoc stub breaks Pod::Usage
Bug #368579 reported by
nandhp
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| perl (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: perl
Pod::Usage invokes /usr/bin/perldoc to provide verbose usage information. If the perl-doc package is not installed, this does not work ("You must install the perl-doc package to use this program").
I'd like to suggest that the perl package includes a functioning version of perldoc, which produces a warning if:
1. perl-doc is not installed, and
2. the requested documentation was not found.
For example:
$ perldoc perlfunc
No documentation found for "perlfunc".
The perl-doc package contains the main set of documentation for perl, but it is not installed.
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