Debian Perl policy

Abstract

This document explains how Perl stuff is packaged within Debian.

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Copyright 1999 by Software in the Public Interest

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Contents

• 1 General view of Perl stuff on a Debian system
• 2 How Perl itself is packaged
  • 2.1 perl-$version-base
  • 2.2 perl-$version
• 3 Packaging Perl modules
  • 3.1 Recommendations for all modules
  • 3.2 Non-binary Perl modules
  • 3.3 Binary Perl modules
• 4 Packaging Perl scripts
• 5 Changelog of the perl policy
  • 5.1 Version 1.1