diff --git a/lang/perl/test-version.sh b/lang/perl/test-version.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..3e80556a97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/perl/test-version.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Perl script wrappers do not output the OpenWrt package version string
+case "$1" in
+	perlbase-archive|perlbase-pod|perlbase-test) exit 0 ;;
+esac