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Clarify the Perl policy documentation rules
authorRuss Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:03:49 +0000 (11:03 -0800)
committerRuss Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:03:49 +0000 (11:03 -0800)
The first section about documentation and manual page extensions
only applies to packages generated from the perl source package.
Make that explicit and add a reference to the section discussing
module packages.

perl-policy.sgml

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          package.
        </p>
        <p>
-         Manual pages distributed with Perl packages must be installed
-         into the standard directories:
+         Manual pages distributed with packages built from the perl
+         source package must be installed into the standard directories:
          <taglist>
            <tag>Programs</tag>
            <item>
              </p>
            </item>
          </taglist>
+         The extensions used for manual pages distributed with module
+         packages are different.  See <ref id="vendor_dirs">.
        </p>
       </sect>
     </chapt>