Source: libfile-chmod-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Alejandro Garrido Mota , gregor herrmann Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libfile-chmod-perl.git Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libfile-chmod-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/File-chmod Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Package: libfile-chmod-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: chmod() override with symbolic and ls-style modes File::chmod is a utility that allows one to bypass system calls or bit processing of a file's permissions. It overloads the chmod() function with its own that gets an octal mode, a symbolic mode, or an "ls" mode. If you wish not to overload chmod(), you can export symchmod() and lschmod(), which take, respectively, a symbolic mode and an "ls" mode.