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diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/vars.pm b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/vars.pm
index 8ec107c1df3..6ca6bb4d2c0 100644
--- a/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/vars.pm
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/vars.pm
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package vars;
use 5.006;
-our $VERSION = '1.02';
+our $VERSION = '1.03';
use warnings::register;
use strict qw(vars subs);
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ __END__
=head1 NAME
-vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete)
+vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names
=head1 SYNOPSIS
@@ -56,9 +56,10 @@ vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-NOTE: For variables in the current package, the functionality provided
-by this pragma has been superseded by C<our> declarations, available
-in Perl v5.6.0 or later. See L<perlfunc/our>.
+NOTE: For use with variables in the current package for a single scope, the
+functionality provided by this pragma has been superseded by C<our>
+declarations, available in Perl v5.6.0 or later, and use of this pragma is
+discouraged. See L<perlfunc/our>.
This will predeclare all the variables whose names are
in the list, allowing you to use them under "use strict", and