Source: libfile-save-home-perl Standards-Version: 4.7.3 Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Xavier Guimard , Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), Build-Depends-Indep: libstring-random-perl , perl, Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libfile-save-home-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libfile-save-home-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/File-Save-Home Package: libfile-save-home-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, Description: Perl extension to place file safely under user home directory File::Save::Home provides several functions which try to determine whether you can, indeed, safely create directories and files underneath a user's home directory. Among other things, if you are placing a file in such a location only temporarily -- say, for testing purposes -- you can temporarily hide any already existing file with the same name and restore it to its original name and timestamps when you are done.