</p>
<p>
You can also obtain it by writing to the
- Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+ Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor,
+ Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
</p>
</copyright>
</titlepag>
<toc detail="sect">
+ <chapt>
+ <heading>About this document</heading>
+ <p>
+ This document is distributed as the <tt>perl-policy</tt> files
+ in the Debian package
+ <package><url name="debian-policy" id="http://packages.debian.org/debian-policy"></package>.
+ It is also available from the Debian web mirrors at
+ <tt><url name="/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/"
+ id="http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/"></tt>.
+ </p>
+ </chapt>
+
<chapt id="perl">
<heading>Perl Packaging</heading>
<sect id="versions">
Rather than hard-coding the dependencies into the control
file, using a substitution such as <tt>${perl:Depends}</tt>
is suggested. This allows the dependencies to be determined
- as build time and written to the <file>substvars</file> file
- in the form <tt>perl:Depends=<var>deps</var></tt>.
+ at build time and written to the <file>substvars</file> file
+ in the form
+ <tt>perl:Depends=<var>deps</var></tt>.<footnote>
+ <p>Please note that dependencies caused by versioned
+ uses and on separately packaged modules are not included
+ in this variable and must be explicitly included.</p>
+ </footnote>
</p>
<p>
Packages built with <prgn>debhelper</prgn> may use
</appendix>
</book>
</debiandoc>
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