Source: libproc-queue-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Maintainer: Alexander Zangerl Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Proc-Queue/ Package: libproc-queue-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: Perl module to limit the number of child processes Proc::Queue lets you parallelise a perl program using the fork, exit, wait and waitpid calls as usual but without taking care of creating too many processes and overloading the machine. . It redefines perl fork, exit, wait and waitpid core functions. Old programs do not need to be reprogrammed, only the use Proc::Queue ... sentence has to be added to them.