Source: libenum-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 4.6.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libenum-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libenum-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/enum Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: libenum-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Multi-Arch: foreign Description: perl module for sets of ordered constants like enums in C The enum module defines a set of symbolic constants with ordered numeric values ala C enum types. . It is now capable of creating ordered bitmask constants as well. See the BITMASKS section in the documentation for details. . What are they good for? Typical uses would be for giving mnemonic names to indexes of arrays. Such arrays might be a list of months, days, or a return value index from a function such as localtime().