I've seen this poll too late, although it's interesting that the most used Perl editor is the vi family (where I'd belong) with 34%, followed not very closely by Emacs (13%). Eclipse + EPIC got only 6%... The full poll results here .
What a good day. Not only I've got a new laptop from the company, but I've found also an extremely useful tool to build a debian package from a perl module: dh-make-perl . You just need to do 2 things: - Run dh-make-perl on the untarred module directory (this creates the necessary debian dir and files). - Inside the module directory, run debuild . Very nice. Now I wonder why most of the CPAN and POE components don't come with a debian package...
On debian/Ubuntu you can check the installationdate from the output of: ls /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list -lh Just | grep the name of the package you're interested to. See this for important details.