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Bug#576594: debian-policy: Unclear "it" in Perl policy 2.2



Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.4.0
Severity: minor

http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-perl.html
says in section 2.2 (Base Package):

    As Perl is currently used by such things as update-alternatives and 
    some package maintainer scripts, it must be priority required and 
    marked as essential. 

If I am reading the section correctly, the "it" in "it must be" refers
to perl-base, not Perl as a language. If I am correct, I think it would
be clearer to replace "it" with "perl-base".

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

debian-policy depends on no packages.

debian-policy recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
pn  doc-base                      <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information



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