Source: libfile-sharedir-tiny-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Build-Depends-Indep: libtest-simple-perl , perl Standards-Version: 4.7.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libfile-sharedir-tiny-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libfile-sharedir-tiny-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/File-ShareDir-Tiny Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: libfile-sharedir-tiny-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: module to locate per-dist and per-module shared files Quite often you want or need your Perl module (CPAN or otherwise) to have access to a large amount of read-only data that is stored on the file-system at run-time. . On a linux-like system, this would be in a place such as /usr/share, however Perl runs on a wide variety of different systems, and so the use of any one location is unreliable. . File::ShareDir::Tiny provides a more portable way to have (read-only) data for your module.