Source: libforks-perl
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uploaders: Jeffrey Ratcliffe <Jeffrey.Ratcliffe@gmail.com>,
           gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>,
           Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Section: perl
Priority: optional
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20120312~),
               libacme-damn-perl,
               liblist-moreutils-perl,
               libsys-sigaction-perl,
               perl
Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl
Standards-Version: 3.9.5
Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libforks-perl.git
Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libforks-perl.git
Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/forks

Package: libforks-perl
Architecture: any
Depends: ${misc:Depends},
         ${perl:Depends},
         ${shlibs:Depends},
         libacme-damn-perl,
         liblist-moreutils-perl,
         libsys-sigaction-perl
Description: Perl module to emulate threads with fork
 The forks.pm module is a drop-in replacement for threads.pm.  It has the
 same syntax as the threads.pm module (it even takes over its namespace) but
 has some significant differences:
 .
  - you do _not_ need a special (threaded) version of Perl
  - it is _much_ more economic with memory usage on OS's that support COW
  - it is more efficient in the startup of threads
  - it is slightly less efficient in the stopping of threads
  - it is less efficient in inter-thread communication
 .
 If nothing else, it allows you to use the Perl threading model in
 non-threaded Perl builds and in older versions of Perl (5.6.0 and
 higher are supported).