Source: libfile-lchown-perl Standards-Version: 4.7.2 Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann , Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), libextutils-cchecker-perl, libmodule-build-perl, libtest-pod-perl , libtest-simple-perl , libtest2-suite-perl , perl-xs-dev, perl:native, Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libfile-lchown-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libfile-lchown-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/File-lchown Package: libfile-lchown-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, Description: module to modify attributes of symlinks without dereferencing them The regular chown system call will dereference a symlink and apply ownership changes to the file at which it points. Some OSes provide system calls that do not dereference a symlink but instead apply their changes directly to the named path, even if that path is a symlink (in much the same way that lstat will return attributes of a symlink rather than the file at which it points). . File::lchown provides a wrapper around those system calls.