diff --git a/textproc/p5-Pod-Abstract/DESCR b/textproc/p5-Pod-Abstract/DESCR
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+POD::Abstract provides a means to load a POD (or POD compatible) document
+without direct reference to it's syntax, and perform manipulations on the
+abstract syntax tree.
+
+This can be used to support additional features for POD, to format output,
+to compile into alternative formats, etc.
+
+WHY?
+====
+
+If you've ever asked yourself "What does Pod do for me?", this module is
+intended to answer that question.
+
+While Pod looks like a simple format, the specification calls for a number
+of special cases to be handled, and that makes any software that works on
+Pod as text more complex than it needs to be.
+
+In addition to this, Pod does not lend itself to a natural structured model.
+This makes it difficult to manipulate without damaging the validity of the
+document.
+
+Pod::Abstract solves these problems by loading the document into a structured
+tree, and providing consistent traversal, searching, manpulation and
+re-serialisation. Pod related utilities are easy to write using Pod::Abstract.
diff --git a/textproc/p5-Pod-Abstract/Makefile b/textproc/p5-Pod-Abstract/Makefile
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+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.1.1.1 2010/01/16 16:11:39 sno Exp $
+#
+
+DISTNAME=	Pod-Abstract-0.20
+PKGNAME=	p5-${DISTNAME}
+CATEGORIES=	textproc perl5
+MASTER_SITES=	${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN:=Pod/}
+
+MAINTAINER=	pkgsrc-users@NetBSD.org
+HOMEPAGE=	http://search.cpan.org/dist/Pod-Abstract/
+COMMENT=	Abstract document tree for Perl POD documents
+LICENSE=	${PERL5_LICENSE}
+
+DEPENDS+=	p5-IO-String-[0-9]*:../../devel/p5-IO-String
+DEPENDS+=	p5-Task-Weaken-[0-9]*:../../devel/p5-Task-Weaken
+
+PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT=	user-destdir
+USE_LANGUAGES=		# empty
+
+PERL5_PACKLIST=		auto/Pod/Abstract/.packlist
+
+.include "../../lang/perl5/module.mk"
+.include "../../mk/bsd.pkg.mk"
diff --git a/textproc/p5-Pod-Abstract/distinfo b/textproc/p5-Pod-Abstract/distinfo
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+$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.1.1.1 2010/01/16 16:11:39 sno Exp $
+
+SHA1 (Pod-Abstract-0.20.tar.gz) = 72081b82d4f57983edc037ad5395cbc76c7ab5b8
+RMD160 (Pod-Abstract-0.20.tar.gz) = e29693cb2e326109dfac215d9a63abe7457242bc
+Size (Pod-Abstract-0.20.tar.gz) = 27676 bytes