Vital parts of the Debian packaging system like Debconf or debhelper
are written in Perl, which is a widely use programming language with
the most extensive set of modules provided by the *****AN network.

This talk discusses the Perl infrastructure in Debian,
pro and cons of using Debian as a platform for Perl applications
and explains methods to create Debian packages from Perl modules
and applications.

Finally a couple of practical issues are presented, including:

* Apache2/mod_perl on Sarge
* Interchange and threaded Perl
* Using Perl in maintainer scripts