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<h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Raphaël</span> <span class="surname">Hertzog</span></h3>
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<h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Brendan</span> <span class="surname">O'Dea</span></h3>
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This document describes the packaging of Perl within the Debian
distribution and the policy requirements for packaged Perl
programs and modules.
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<a href="ch-perl.html">2. Perl Packaging</a>
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<a href="ap-perl6.html">A. Perl 6</a>
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