diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl-5.10/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.10/default.nix
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/development/interpreters/perl-5.10/default.nix
rename to pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.10/default.nix
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl-5.10/no-sys-dirs.patch b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.10/no-sys-dirs.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/development/interpreters/perl-5.10/no-sys-dirs.patch
rename to pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.10/no-sys-dirs.patch
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl-5.10/setup-hook.sh b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.10/setup-hook.sh
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/development/interpreters/perl-5.10/setup-hook.sh
rename to pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.10/setup-hook.sh
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl-5.8/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.8/default.nix
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/development/interpreters/perl-5.8/default.nix
rename to pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.8/default.nix
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl-5.8/gcc-4.2.patch b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.8/gcc-4.2.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/development/interpreters/perl-5.8/gcc-4.2.patch
rename to pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.8/gcc-4.2.patch
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl-5.8/no-sys-dirs.patch b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.8/no-sys-dirs.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/development/interpreters/perl-5.8/no-sys-dirs.patch
rename to pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.8/no-sys-dirs.patch
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl-5.8/setup-hook.sh b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.8/setup-hook.sh
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/development/interpreters/perl-5.8/setup-hook.sh
rename to pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/5.8/setup-hook.sh
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 1caf577dec1b..dab1460816e6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2559,11 +2559,11 @@ let
   # mercurial (hg) bleeding edge version
   octaveHG = callPackage ../development/interpreters/octave/hg.nix { };
 
-  perl58 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/perl-5.8 {
+  perl58 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/perl/5.8 {
     impureLibcPath = if stdenv.isLinux then null else "/usr";
   };
 
-  perl510 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/perl-5.10 {
+  perl510 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/perl/5.10 {
     fetchurl = fetchurlBoot;
   };