Source: libparse-debcontrol-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7) Build-Depends-Indep: perl, libio-stringy-perl, libwww-perl, libtie-ixhash-perl, libtest-pod-perl, libpod-coverage-perl, libtest-exception-perl, liberror-perl, libexporter-lite-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Carl Fürstenberg Standards-Version: 3.9.4 Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Parse-DebControl/ Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libparse-debcontrol-perl.git Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libparse-debcontrol-perl.git Package: libparse-debcontrol-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libio-stringy-perl, libwww-perl, liberror-perl, libexporter-lite-perl Recommends: libtie-ixhash-perl Description: parser for debian control-like files Parse::DebControl is an easy OO way to parse Debian control files and other colon separated key-value pairs. It's specifically designed to handle the format used in Debian control files, template files, and the cache files used by dpkg. . For basic format information see: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-controlsyntax . This module does not actually do any intelligence with the file content (because there are a lot of files in this format), but merely handles the format. It can handle simple control files, or files hundreds of lines long efficiently and easily.