Source: libclone-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann , Ansgar Burchardt , Xavier Guimard Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), libtaint-runtime-perl, perl Standards-Version: 4.2.1 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libclone-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libclone-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Clone Package: libclone-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: module for recursively copying Perl datatypes The Clone module provides a clone() method which makes recursive copies of nested hash, array, scalar and reference types, including tied variables and objects. . It is faster (although less flexible) than Storable's dclone. Its functionality is _not_ serializing in-memory objects (i.e. as Data::Dumper or YAML::Dump do), but deep-copying them over to new in-memory structures.