Source: libio-compress-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann , Damyan Ivanov , Xavier Guimard Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Build-Depends-Indep: libcompress-raw-bzip2-perl (>= 2.101) , libcompress-raw-zlib-perl (>= 2.101) , libtest-pod-perl , perl Standards-Version: 4.5.1 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libio-compress-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libio-compress-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/IO-Compress Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: libio-compress-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, libcompress-raw-bzip2-perl (>= ${source:Upstream-Version}), libcompress-raw-zlib-perl (>= ${source:Upstream-Version}) # add libio-compress-zstd-perl once they are packaged Recommends: libio-compress-lzma-perl (>= ${source:Upstream-Version}) Description: bundle of IO::Compress modules This package contains the following IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress modules: . - Compress::Zlib - IO::Compress::Base - IO::Compress::Bzip2 - IO::Compress::Deflate - IO::Compress::Gzip - IO::Compress::RawDeflate - IO::Compress::Zip - IO::Uncompress::Base - IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2 - IO::Uncompress::Gunzip - IO::Uncompress::Inflate - IO::Uncompress::RawInflate - IO::Uncompress::Unzip . Compress::Zlib is a Perl external module which provides an interface to the info-zip zlib compression library. zlib is a general purpose compression library. . Some of the features provided by Compress::Zlib include: . * in-memory compression and decompression * read and write gzip (.gz) files directly. . IO::Compress::Bunzip2 and IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2 provide a Perl interface that allows transparent reading and writing bzip2 compressed data to files or buffers. . IO::Compress::Base is the base class for all IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress modules. It is not intended for direct use in application code. Its sole purpose is to be sub-classed by IO::Compress modules.