Source: libfuture-io-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), libmodule-build-perl, perl Build-Depends-Indep: libfuture-perl , libio-async-perl , libstruct-dumb-perl , libtest2-suite-perl Standards-Version: 4.6.2 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libfuture-io-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libfuture-io-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Future-IO Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: libfuture-io-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, libfuture-perl, libstruct-dumb-perl, libtest2-suite-perl Multi-Arch: foreign Description: collection of Future-returning IO methods The Future::IO distribution provides a few basic methods that behave similarly to the same-named core perl functions relating to IO operations, but yield their results asynchronously via Future instances. . This is provided primarily as a decoupling mechanism, to allow modules to be written that perform IO in an asynchronous manner to depend directly on this, while allowing asynchronous event systems to provide an implementation of these operations.