Perl Packages for Debian
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perl - Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Language.
perl-base - The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.
perl-doc - Perl documentation.
perl-debug - Debug-enabled Perl interpreter.
libperl5.34 - Shared Perl library.
perl-modules-5.34 - Architecture independent core Perl modules.
libperl-dev - Perl library: development files.
To provide a minimal working perl, the ``perl-base'' package provides
the /usr/bin/perl binary plus a basic set of libraries.
The remainder of the application is included in the perl, perl-modules-5.34
and perl-doc packages.
See the 'README.source' file in the perl source package for information
on building the package.
perl-suid removed
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suidperl was removed upstream with 5.12, so the perl-suid package which
used to be distributed in Debian has been removed too. Possible alternatives
include using a simple setuid C wrapper to execute a perl script from a
hard-coded location, or using a more general tool like sudo.
Credits
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Previous maintainers of Debian Perl packages:
Ray Dassen <jdassen@WI.LeidenUniv.NL>,
Carl Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu>,
Robert Sanders <Robert.Sanders@linux.org> and
Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>.
-- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:30:38 +1100
Dwayne Hart
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