Perl Packages for Debian ------------------------ perl - Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Language. perl-base - The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. perl-modules - Core Perl modules. perl-doc - Perl documentation. perl-debug - Debug-enabled Perl interpreter. perl-suid - Runs setuid Perl scripts. libperl5.6 - Shared Perl library. libperl-dev - Perl library: development files. libcgi-fast-perl - CGI::Fast Perl module. 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 and perl-doc packages. libcgi-fast-perl has been split from -modules as it depends on libfcgi-perl. Previous maintainers of Debian Perl packages: Ray Dassen , Carl Streeter , Robert Sanders and Darren Stalder . -- Brendan O'Dea , Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:04:14 +1100