While the whole "requires: perl" thing goes on about META.yml, its important
that folks understand the underlying source material that META.yml draws its
design from: the Debian Policy Manual.
http://www.us.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
Whether not you like using Debian, they've got their shit together when it
comes to managing a large, comprehensive, contributor-developed,
dependency-resolving package repository (sound familiar?) and have a great
packaging format. And they have piles and piles of documentation about it.
It's worth reading, they've been doing this for over a decade and they do it
well.
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