There is an updated pull request by zdykstra against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/zdykstra/void-packages perl-module https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/23942 perl-module: add perl to build depends There are 456 packages with a build style of `perl-module`. Of those 455 have `perl` explicitly set for `$hostmakedepends` and 425 have `perl` set for `$makedepends`. I'm not sure it's reasonable to retroactively fix all of the templates using the `perl-module` build style, but future updates of templates can be cleaned up. A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/23942.patch is attached