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