Source: libeval-linenumbers-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/libeval-linenumbers-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libeval-linenumbers-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Eval-LineNumbers Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: libeval-linenumbers-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Multi-Arch: foreign Description: module to add line numbers to eval'ed heredoc blocks Eval::LineNumbers adds a '#line "this-file" 392' comment to heredoc/hereis text that is going to be eval'ed so that error messages will point back to the right place. . Please note: when you embed \n in your code, it gets expanded in double-quote hereis documents so it will mess up your line numbering. Use \\n instead when you can.