Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 01:59:53AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
>>I had my reservations about relying on highlight.pm; and this
>>confirms them, unfortunately :<  Oh well...
>
> I was also unable to find highlight.pm anywhere outside of Debian 
> packages.

I was, at least, able to package it for Nixpkgs relatively easily.  I
suspect other distributions might just include it with the highlight
package -- that's probably what I'll be doing.  I note that there's also
a package for it in pkgsrc.