Source: libmethod-alias-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Niko Tyni Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) Build-Depends-Indep: perl, libtest-pod-perl Standards-Version: 3.9.8 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libmethod-alias-perl.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libmethod-alias-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Method-Alias Package: libmethod-alias-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: module to create method aliases The traditional way to create a method alias (provide an alternate name for a method) is simply a GLOB alias. While this works fine for functions, it does not work for methods overloaded by a subclass. . Instead, Method::Alias creates a number of methods in the caller's package to call the real method. It is designed to be used as a pragma, to which you provide a set of pairs of method names.