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docker-perl
===========

This project is the source for the Docker perl repo; for more details,
take a look at https://registry.hub.docker.com/_/perl/.
This project is the source for the [Docker Library official perl images](https://registry.hub.docker.com/_/perl/),
which builds the officially-supported perl versions ([perlpolicy](https://perldoc.perl.org/perlpolicy)) on
the officially supported Debian base images for several
architectures. These are reviewed and built by Docker Library.

The structure of this repo is to use the full version ID of each Perl
version, plus a comma separate list of extensions, followed by the
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locally applied patches. These changes should be limited to Configure
rather than to code itself, and will be a cherry pick or back port of a
patch from the mainline perl branch whenever possible.

## See Also

* [Docker Library FAQ](https://github.com/docker-library/faq?tab=readme-ov-file#what-do-you-mean-by-official)
*