Source: libfile-tail-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Build-Depends-Indep: libtime-hires-perl , perl:any Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Roland Rosenfeld Standards-Version: 4.6.1 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libfile-tail-perl.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libfile-tail-perl Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/File-Tail Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: libfile-tail-perl Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: File::Tail perl module The File::Tail module is designed for reading files which are continuously appended to (the name comes from the tail -f directive). Usually such files are logfiles of some description. . The module tries hard not to busy wait on the file, dynamicaly calculating how long it should wait before it pays to try reading the file again. . The module should handle normal log truncations ("close; move; open" or "cat /dev/null >file") transparently, without losing any input.