Added a note about perl and exec plugins to README.Debian.

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index d998eec290f6250299d2166a5a00367bad0d29ee..3b77e13dcbf4c3cbe13eeb4296a9acac1fbca7a8 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ Configuring collectd:
 Building your own plugins:
 --------------------------
 
+- Originally, plugins for collectd had to be written in C and linked as shared
+  objects. Starting with version 4.0.0, it is also possible to use plugins
+  written in the scripting language Perl or implemented as separate processes.
+  See section "SPECIAL PLUGINS" in collectd(1) for details.
+
 - If you want to contribute plugins to the official distribution you should
   read http://collectd.org/dev-info.shtml.