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which perl
/bin/perl

the problem does not resolve even if i use

nix shell nixpkgs#cloc nixpkgs#perl

In reply to @andy.99:matrix.org
there is some i18n translation setting that can be tweaked on nixos using the config file
not sure if its equivalent is present on non-nixos

In reply to @stigo:matrix.org
in general, can someone help shepherding perlPackage updates trough staging on a semi-regular basis? I'm worried that we'll get a large backlog of changes again :-) Got https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/268374 but this is outdated now, and should be updated. /me carefully pings @zakame and Janne Heß

I've been thinking about a sort of pythonImportsCheck for perlPackages to check for the kinds of problems like PR#294728. Maybe something like:

perlUseCheck = ["X11::XCB"];

That effectively runs something like:

perl -MX11::XCB -E 'say $X11::XCB::VERSION'