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diff --git a/perl-policy.sgml b/perl-policy.sgml
index b05b3fc..1d26df7 100644
--- 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>
 
@@ -38,21 +40,33 @@
 	</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">.
 	</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">
@@ -305,10 +319,6 @@ $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/&lt;tmp&gt;/usr
 	    (nominally just tmp)</p>
 	  </footnote>
 	</p>
-	<p>
-	  A <tt>Build-Depends</tt> on <tt>perl (>= 5.6.0-16)</tt> is
-	  required.
-	</p>
       </sect>
 
       <sect id="module_deps">
@@ -328,13 +338,6 @@ $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/&lt;tmp&gt;/usr
 	    the minimum required version, or more simply the current
 	    version.
 	  </p>
-	  <p>
-	    In the absence of an explicit requirement,
-	    architecture-independent modules must depend on a minimum
-	    <package>perl</package> or <package>perl-base</package>
-	    version of <tt>5.6.0-16</tt> due to the changes in
-	    <tt>@INC</tt> introduced by that version.
-	  </p>
 	</sect1>
 
 	<sect1 id="binary_modules">
@@ -356,8 +359,13 @@ $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/&lt;tmp&gt;/usr
 	    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
@@ -469,3 +477,6 @@ perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts
     </appendix>
   </book>
 </debiandoc>
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