Source: libclass-autoloadcan-perl
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Section: perl
Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl
Priority: optional
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
               libmodule-build-perl
Build-Depends-Indep: perl
Standards-Version: 3.9.6
Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libclass-autoloadcan-perl
Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libclass-autoloadcan-perl.git
Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Class-AutoloadCAN

Package: libclass-autoloadcan-perl
Architecture: all
Depends: ${misc:Depends},
         ${perl:Depends}
Multi-Arch: foreign
Description: module managing conflict between AUTOLOAD, can and inheritance
 Class::AutoloadCAN solves a fundamental conflict between AUTOLOAD, can and
 inheritance. The problem is that while you can implement anything in
 AUTOLOAD, UNIVERSAL::can is not aware that it is there. Attempting to modify
 UNIVERSAL::can to document those methods is very hard. And if a parent class
 uses AUTOLOAD then subclasses have to do a lot of work to make their
 AUTOLOADs cooperate with the parent one. It is harder still if 2 parent
 classes in a multiple inheritance tree wish to cooperate with each other. Few
 try to do this, which may be good since those who try usually get it wrong.
 See http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=342804 for a fuller discussion.
 .
 With this module instead of writing AUTOLOADs, you write CANs. Based on what
 they return, Class::AutoloadCAN will decide whether you handle the call or it
 needs to search higher up the inheritance chain.