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+# Template file for 'perl-AppConfig'
+pkgname=perl-AppConfig
+version=1.71
+revision=1
+noarch=yes
+wrksrc="${pkgname/perl-/}-${version}"
+build_style=perl-module
+hostmakedepends="perl"
+makedepends="$hostmakedepends"
+depends="$makedepends"
+short_desc="AppConfig - Perl5 module for reading configuration files and parsing command line arguments"
+maintainer="Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>"
+license="Artistic-1.0-Perl, GPL-1.0-or-later"
+homepage="https://metacpan.org/release/AppConfig"
+distfiles="${CPAN_SITE}/AppConfig/AppConfig-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=1177027025ecb09ee64d9f9f255615c04db5e14f7536c344af632032eb887b0f