Source: libobject-multitype-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Ansgar Burchardt Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 4.1.3 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libobject-multitype-perl.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libobject-multitype-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Object-MultiType Package: libobject-multitype-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: Perl objects as Hash, Array, Scalar, Code and Glob at once The Object::MultiType module returns an object that works like a Hash, Array, Scalar, Code and Glob object at the same time. It uses tie and override magic to expose to the perl level the intrinsic typeglob-ness of all references. If this does not make sense to you, you probably will not be using it directly, although you may wind up installing it as a dependency of something else.