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+# Template file for 'perl-String-Escape'
+pkgname=perl-String-Escape
+version=2010.002
+revision=1
+noarch=yes
+wrksrc="${pkgname/perl-/}-${version}"
+build_style=perl-module
+hostmakedepends="perl"
+makedepends="${hostmakedepends}"
+depends="${makedepends}"
+short_desc="String::Escape - Backslash escapes, quoted phrase, word elision"
+maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
+homepage="http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-Escape"
+license="Artistic, GPL-1"
+distfiles="${CPAN_SITE}/String/String-Escape-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=fd645f8b336224d20a85ae7fb1a384576eac329f7adc3923c3241e828e3b9a8a