Source: libdevel-refcount-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Jonathan Yu , gregor herrmann , Xavier Guimard Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20120312), libmodule-build-perl, libtest-fatal-perl, libtest-pod-perl, perl Standards-Version: 3.9.4 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libdevel-refcount-perl.git Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libdevel-refcount-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Devel-Refcount Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Package: libdevel-refcount-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: Perl module to obtain the reference count of a variable Devel::Refcount provides a single function which obtains the reference count of the object being pointed to by the passed reference value. . Internally, Perl maintains a count of the number of 'things' referring to each variable, as a means of providing automatic memory management. Every time a reference is made to a scalar value, for example, the reference count is incremented; every time that reference is lost (eg. when a lexical variable goes out of scope) then the reference count is decremented.