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I wonder how much of that Perl support is simply regex and other parsing utilities.

I’ve notice a lot of that in base OS systems

Its a curiosity more than anything though

A substantial fraction of apt is written in perl. It's actually still pretty core to debian, even if applications are using it less.

There is no Perl code in APT itself, nor in dpkg on the installing side; Perl is used by dpkg-dev, i.e. when building packages.

Ah, my apologies. I must admit I am not entirely clear on where the boundaries are between the different tools and other elements of the debian packaging process.

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