Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries

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

diff --git a/perl-policy.sgml b/perl-policy.sgml
index 626c5144bc4124fbde9cbba8fcbedbc60405e5db..54e97d36bef4c03ba4b653064f1b5ca482603400 100644 (file)
--- a/perl-policy.sgml
+++ b/perl-policy.sgml
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@
          <package>perlapi-<var>abiname</var></package> for all released
          package versions it is compatible with. The choice of
          <var>abiname</var> is arbitrary, but if it differs from
-         <tt>$Config{version}</tt>, it must be specified in
+         <tt>$Config{version}</tt><footnote>see the
+         <tt>Config</tt> module</footnote>, it must be specified in
          <tt>$Config{debian_abi}</tt>.
        </p>
       </sect>
@@ -149,8 +150,7 @@
 /usr/local/share/perl/<var>version</var>
                </example>
                Where <var>version</var> indicates the current Perl
-               version (<tt>$Config{version}</tt><footnote>see the
-               <tt>Config</tt> module</footnote>).
+               version (<tt>$Config{version}</tt>).
              </p>
            </item>
            <tag><var>vendor</var></tag>
@@ -168,9 +168,11 @@
              <p>
                Modules included in the core Perl distribution.
                <example>
-/usr/lib/perl/<var>version</var>
-/usr/share/perl/<var>version</var>
+/usr/lib/perl/<var>shortversion</var>
+/usr/share/perl/<var>shortversion</var>
                </example>
+               Where <var>shortversion</var> indicates the current Perl major
+               version (for example <tt>5.18</tt>).
              </p>
            </item>
            <tag><var>site</var> (old)</tag>