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+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+# Copyright 2023 EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack.package import *
+
+
+class PerlScopeGuard(PerlPackage):
+    """Lexically-scoped resource management"""
+
+    homepage = "https://metacpan.org/pod/Scope::Guard"
+    url = "https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/C/CH/CHOCOLATE/Scope-Guard-0.21.tar.gz"
+
+    maintainers("EbiArnie")
+
+    version("0.21", sha256="8c9b1bea5c56448e2c3fadc65d05be9e4690a3823a80f39d2f10fdd8f777d278")
+
+    depends_on("perl@5.6.1:", type=("build", "link", "run", "test"))
+
+    def test_use(self):
+        """Test 'use module'"""
+        options = ["-we", 'use strict; use Scope::Guard; print("OK\n")']
+
+        perl = self.spec["perl"].command
+        out = perl(*options, output=str.split, error=str.split)
+        assert "OK" in out