Suggestion: Make cperl-mode a :core package in GNU ELPA

Hello Emacs developers,

I would like to offer cperl-mode.el (in lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el) as
a GNU ELPA :core package.

Motivation: About once a year a new version of Perl is released.  Almost
every version comes with syntax enhancements which can be supported by
cperl-mode.el.  I recently added support for Perl 5.44, released in July
2026, to the Emacs master branch.  I would like to make this available
to Perl developers before Emacs 32 is released.

I have prepared cperl-mode.el with URL and Version headers.  The version
is initialized with 32.0.50.  CPerl mode used to have its own version
variable in the past.  This was deprecated in favor of emacs-version,
so I guess the current emacs-version is a valid starting point. The URL
should eventually point to https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/cperl-mode.html.

I grabbed package-lint from GNU ELPA and the check passes without errors
(actually, the changes were triggered by a conversation on GitHub).

Are there any other things I need to do?

One step to be done by someone with permission is to add a definition to
elpa-packages in the elpa repository - the patch is attached.  I ask for
your help here.

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Cheers,
haj

From 9bdc0779c732b2238f018bd374ed4c4fef7f856d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Harald=20J=C3=B6rg?= <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:37:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] elpa-packages (cperl-mode): New package

---
 elpa-packages | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/elpa-packages b/elpa-packages
index 83a7be9ab6..3c1e575685 100644
--- a/elpa-packages
+++ b/elpa-packages
@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@
  (counsel		:url "https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper"
   :manual-sync t
   )
+ (cperl-mode		:core "lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el")
  (cpio-mode		:url "https://github.com/dlewan/cpio-mode")
  (cpupower		:url "https://gitlab.com/steve-emacs-stuff/cpupower-el")
  (crdt			:url "https://code.librehq.com/qhong/crdt.el")
-- 
2.43.0