Source: libimporter-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 4.5.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libimporter-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libimporter-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Importer Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: libimporter-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: alternative but compatible interface to modules that export symbols Importer acts as a layer between Exporter and modules which consume exports. It is feature-compatible with Exporter, plus some much needed extras. You can use this to import symbols from any exporter that follows Exporters specification. The exporter modules themselves do not need to use or inherit from the Exporter module, they just need to set @EXPORT and/or other variables.