This is a collection of .pl files that have historically been bundled with the Perl core but are planned not to be so distributed with core version 5.15 or later. Relying on their presence in the core distribution is deprecated; they should be acquired from this CPAN distribution instead.
Binary packages can be installed with the high-level tool pkgin (which can be installed with pkg_add) or pkg_add(1) (installed by default). The NetBSD packages collection is also designed to permit easy installation from source.
The pkg_admin audit command locates any installed package which has been mentioned in security advisories as having vulnerabilities.
Please note the vulnerabilities database might not be fully accurate, and not every bug is exploitable with every configuration.
Problem reports, updates or suggestions for this package should be reported with send-pr.