Source: libdata-yaml-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Nuno Carvalho Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libdata-yaml-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libdata-yaml-perl.git Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Data-YAML Package: libdata-yaml-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Multi-Arch: foreign Description: Easy YAML serialisation of Perl data structures In the spirit of YAML::Tiny, Data::YAML::Reader and Data::YAML::Writer provide lightweight, dependency-free YAML handling. While YAML::Tiny is designed principally for working with configuration files Data::YAML concentrates on the transparent round-tripping of YAML serialized Perl data structures. . As an example of why this distinction matters consider that YAML::Tiny doesn't handle hashes with keys containing non-printable characters. This is fine for configuration files but likely to cause problems when handling arbitrary Perl data structures. Data::YAML handles exotic hash keys correctly. . The syntax accepted by Data::YAML is a subset of YAML. Specifically it is the same subset of YAML that Data::YAML::Writer produces. See Data::YAML for more information.