[Koha] to cpan or not

[John Simonds]

In the instructions for Debian Lenny 5.0 (INSTALL.debian-lenny) there is a
dire message that was pointed out by developers as:
*
IMPORTANT:  You should only use CPAN for Perl dependencies which are NOT
            available from the package maintainer. You have been warned!
*
With repect to installing dependencies, how does one know which Perl
dependencies ARE available and when do we rely on CPAN to replace them?
Is the "package maintainer" the original Koha download and if so, how do we
know what packages are missing?
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