Source: libprivileges-drop-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Michael Stapelberg Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), libmodule-build-perl, perl Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libprivileges-drop-perl.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libprivileges-drop-perl Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Privileges-Drop Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Package: libprivileges-drop-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Multi-Arch: foreign Description: module to make it simple to drop all privileges Privileges::Drop tries to simplify the process of dropping privileges. This can be useful when your Perl program needs to bind to privileged ports, etc. This module is much like Proc::UID, except that it's implemented in pure Perl. Special care has been taken to also drop saved uid on platforms that support this, currently only tested on Linux.