Source: libdb-file-lock-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann , Ansgar Burchardt Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libdb-file-lock-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libdb-file-lock-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/DB_File-Lock Package: libdb-file-lock-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Multi-Arch: foreign Description: wrapper adding locking for the DB_File module When you need locking, simply use DB_File::Lock in place of DB_File and add an extra argument onto the tie command specifying if the file should be locked for reading or writing.