Source: libconvert-binary-c-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Charles Plessy , gregor herrmann , Dominic Hargreaves Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), libtest-pod-coverage-perl , libtest-pod-perl , libtie-hash-indexed-perl , libtie-ixhash-perl , perl-xs-dev, perl:native Standards-Version: 4.5.1 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libconvert-binary-c-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libconvert-binary-c-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Convert-Binary-C Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: libconvert-binary-c-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Recommends: libtie-hash-indexed-perl | libtie-ixhash-perl Description: Binary Data Conversion using C Types Convert::Binary::C is a preprocessor and parser for C type definitions. It is highly configurable and supports arbitrarily complex data structures. Its object-oriented interface has pack and unpack methods that act as replacements for Perl's pack and unpack and allow one to use C types instead of a string representation of the data structure for conversion of binary data from and to Perl's complex data structures. . Actually, what Convert::Binary::C does is not very different from what a C compiler does, just that it doesn't compile the source code into an object file or executable, but only parses the code and allows Perl to use the enumerations, structs, unions and typedefs that have been defined within your C source for binary data conversion, similar to Perl's pack and unpack.