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Perldoc formatter changes
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The default perldoc formatter was changed upstream in Perl 5.20 to 'Term'
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and in 5.28 from that to 'Text' for various compatibility reasons.
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This has resulted in pure text-based output with no bold or underline
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effects, which is clearly not ideal.
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The defaults for the Debian packaging may be revisited after the Buster
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release, but for the time being the formatter can be overridden with
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environment variables:
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export PERLDOC=-oTerm PERLDOC_PAGER='less -R' # works like Stretch, Jessie
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export PERLDOC=-oMan # works like Wheezy
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See https://bugs.debian.org/917530 for more information.
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Other information
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=================
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Note that parts of this package, including Perl changelog history
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since version 5.000, can be found in /usr/share/doc/perl rather than
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this directory.
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