A bug fixing non-normative release

[debian/debian-policy.git] / perl-policy.sgml

diff --git a/perl-policy.sgml b/perl-policy.sgml
index b05b3fc9fd83612d1274040cf37a5d653d0b3cc3..895bf0ee2b4542b8f3d4109b9f46080f64fd6f3a 100644 (file)
--- a/perl-policy.sgml
+++ b/perl-policy.sgml
@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@
       <title>Debian Perl Policy</title>
       <author>
        <name>Rapha&euml;l Hertzog</name>
-       <email>hertzog@debian.org</email>
       </author>
       <author>
        <name>Brendan O'Dea</name>
-       <email>bod@debian.org</email>
+      </author>
+      <author>
+       <name>The Debian Policy mailing list</name>
+       <email>debian-policy@lists.debian.org</email>
       </author>
       <version>version 1.20</version>
 
@@ -38,7 +40,7 @@
        </p>
        <p>
          A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as
-         <tt>/usr/share/common-licences/GPL</tt> in the Debian GNU/Linux
+         <tt>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL</tt> in the Debian GNU/Linux
          distribution or on the World Wide Web at 
          <url id="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"
          name="The GNU Public Licence">.
@@ -53,6 +55,18 @@
 
     <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">
@@ -357,7 +371,12 @@ $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/&lt;tmp&gt;/usr
            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>.
+           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