diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index a71731dadc2c..cf0a9767a54f 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -16622,6 +16622,20 @@ let
     };
   };
 
+  PodAbstract = buildPerlPackage {
+    pname = "Pod-Abstract";
+    version = "0.20";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/B/BL/BLILBURNE/Pod-Abstract-0.20.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "956ef7bb884c55456e2fb6e7f229f9a87dd50a61d700500c738db8f2ba277f87";
+    };
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ IOString TaskWeaken PodParser ];
+    meta = {
+      description = "An abstract, tree-based interface to perl POD documents";
+      license = with stdenv.lib.licenses; [ artistic1 gpl1Plus ];
+    };
+  };
+
   PodChecker = buildPerlPackage {
     pname = "Pod-Checker";
     version = "1.73";