Source: libproc-daemon-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) Build-Depends-Indep: libproc-processtable-perl, perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Marc Haber , Krzysztof Krzyżaniak (eloy) , Jonathan Yu , Salvatore Bonaccorso Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libproc-daemon-perl.git Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libproc-daemon-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Proc-Daemon Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Package: libproc-daemon-perl Architecture: all Depends: libproc-processtable-perl, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: module for running scripts as daemons Proc::Daemon can be used by a Perl program to initialize itself as a daemon (a background process with no controlling terminal). You can also check the status of the daemon (alive or dead) and you can kill the daemon.