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diff --git a/gnu/packages/perl.scm b/gnu/packages/perl.scm
index 61771bcd1c..fb49a25354 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/perl.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/perl.scm
@@ -623,6 +623,34 @@ a minimum of effort.")
;;; Some packaged modules need versions of core modules that are newer than
;;; those in our perl 5.16.1.
+(define-public perl-cpan-meta
+ (package
+ (name "perl-cpan-meta")
+ (version "2.143240")
+ (source
+ (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append "mirror://cpan/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/"
+ "CPAN-Meta-" version ".tar.gz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "1d80bxphpp5dq7fx5ipxszn7j8q9d85w6fnapdrbym21k1vsmlf6"))))
+ (build-system perl-build-system)
+ (propagated-inputs
+ `(("perl-cpan-meta-requirements" ,perl-cpan-meta-requirements)
+ ("perl-cpan-meta-yaml" ,perl-cpan-meta-yaml)
+ ("perl-parse-cpan-meta" ,perl-parse-cpan-meta)))
+ (home-page "http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Meta")
+ (synopsis "Distribution metadata for a CPAN dist")
+ (description "Software distributions released to the CPAN include a
+META.json or, for older distributions, META.yml, which describes the
+distribution, its contents, and the requirements for building and installing
+the distribution. The data structure stored in the META.json file is
+described in CPAN::Meta::Spec. CPAN::Meta provides a simple class to
+represent this distribution metadata (or distmeta), along with some helpful
+methods for interrogating that data.")
+ (license (package-license perl))))
+
(define-public perl-cpan-meta-requirements
(package
(name "perl-cpan-meta-requirements")