Bug#761930: lintian: Please ship API documentation also as POD or as man page

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2014-09-17 00:00, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.27
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> it took me a moment to recognize that the Lintian API documentation is
> indeed in package -- because I neither found them with man nor with
> perldoc.
> 
> I expect that I'm not the only one who'd prefer perldoc or man over a
> web browser for reading perl-related documentation.
> 
> So it would be nice if the POD sources would be shipped in perldoc's
> search path and/or man pages generated from POD.
> 
> [...]
> 

Hi Axel,

I presume you are talking about (e.g.) the Lintian::Tutorial POD and not
the actual POD for the modules.  At least the POD from our ".pm" seems
to be available (i.e. a call like perldoc Lintian::Path gives a Perldoc
page).

~Niels