I've just released Module::Starter 0.02, meant as a replacement for h2xs.
I just reinstalled Debian on my laptop with the default perl (5.6.1). The following are the modules required and "requested" for Module::Starter and its dependents. Not complaining or making any judgement, just thought it interesting.
Archive-Tar-1.08 Devel-CoreStack-1.3 Devel-Symdump-2.03 ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.02 ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.08 Module-Build-0.24 Pod-Coverage-0.13 Pod-Escapes-1.03 Pod-Simple-2.05 Test-Builder-Tester-0.09 Test-Harness-2.40 Test-Pod-1.12 Test-Pod-Coverage-0.08 Test-Simple-0.47 YAML-0.35
