diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
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+Date-Simple-3.02.tar.gz
diff --git a/perl-Date-Simple.spec b/perl-Date-Simple.spec
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e05a09
--- /dev/null
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+Summary:	Simple date object for perl
+Name:		perl-Date-Simple
+Version:	3.02
+Release:	2%{?dist}
+License:	Artistic or GPL
+Group:		Development/Libraries
+Url:		http://search.cpan.org/dist/Date-Simple/
+Source0:	http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/Y/YV/YVES/Date-Simple-%{version}.tar.gz
+BuildRoot:	%{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
+Requires:	perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_%(eval "`%{__perl} -V:version`"; echo $version))
+
+%description
+%{summary}.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n Date-Simple-%{version}
+
+# Artistic license text not included in tarball
+%{_bindir}/perldoc -t perlartistic > Artistic
+
+# Spurious exec permissions in files from tarball
+%{_bindir}/find lib -type f -exec %{__chmod} -x {} ';'
+%{__chmod} -x ChangeLog COPYING README
+
+# The NoXS.pm file provides a pure-perl alternative to the C implementation
+# of the module. This results in duplicate "Provides:" entries, which rpmlint
+# whinges about. This kludge removes the redundant file, which has the added
+# benefit of shutting up rpmlint.
+%{__rm} -f lib/Date/Simple/NoXS.pm
+%{__sed} -i -e '/^lib\/Date\/Simple\/NoXS\.pm$/d' MANIFEST
+
+%build
+%{__perl} Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor OPTIMIZE="%{optflags}"
+%{__make} %{?_smp_mflags}
+
+%clean
+%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}
+
+%install
+%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}
+%{__make} pure_install PERL_INSTALL_ROOT=%{buildroot}
+%{_bindir}/find %{buildroot} -type f -name .packlist -exec %{__rm} -f {} ';'
+%{_bindir}/find %{buildroot} -type f -name '*.bs' -a -size 0 -exec %{__rm} -f {} ';'
+%{_bindir}/find %{buildroot} -type d -depth -exec /bin/rmdir {} 2>/dev/null ';'
+%{__chmod} -R u+w %{buildroot}/*
+
+%check
+%{__make} test
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,0755)
+%doc Artistic ChangeLog COPYING README
+%{perl_vendorarch}/Date/
+%{perl_vendorarch}/auto/Date/
+%{_mandir}/man3/Date::Simple*.3pm*
+
+%changelog
+* Tue Aug 23 2005 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 3.02-2
+- point URLs at search.cpan.org instead of cpan.uwinnipeg.ca
+
+* Tue Aug 23 2005 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 3.02-1
+- initial package build
diff --git a/sources b/sources
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--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9a9559617ea27d518c282e5fb8367775  Date-Simple-3.02.tar.gz