Source: libex-monkeypatched-perl
Section: perl
Priority: optional
Build-Depends: cdbs,
 devscripts,
 perl,
 debhelper,
 dh-buildinfo,
 libsub-name-perl,
 libtest-exception-perl
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uploaders: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
Standards-Version: 3.9.6
Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libex-monkeypatched-perl
Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libex-monkeypatched-perl.git
Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/ex-monkeypatched

Package: libex-monkeypatched-perl
Architecture: all
Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${cdbs:Depends}
Enhances: ${cdbs:Enhances}
Description: experimental API for safe monkey-patching
 The term "monkey patching" describes injecting additional methods into
 a class whose implementation you don't control.  If done without care,
 this is dangerous; the problematic case arises when:
  * You add a method to a class;
  * A newer version of the monkey-patched class adds another method of
    the same name
  * And uses that new method in some other part of its own
    implementation.
 .
 ex::monkeypatched lets you do this sort of monkey-patching safely:
 before it injects a method into the target class, it checks whether the
 class already has a method of the same name.  If it finds such a
 method, it throws an exception (at compile-time with respect to the
 code that does the injection).
 .
 See <http://aaroncrane.co.uk/talks/monkey_patching_subclassing/> for
 more details.