Source: libsymbol-global-name-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Bastian Blank , gregor herrmann Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), libmodule-install-perl Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 3.9.5 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libsymbol-global-name-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libsymbol-global-name-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Symbol-Global-Name Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Package: libsymbol-global-name-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Multi-Arch: foreign Description: module to find name and type of a global variable Symbol::Global::Name lookups the symbol table to find an element by reference. . Its find() method takes a reference and optionally a package name. It returns the name of the referenced variable as long as it's in the package or sub-package and it's a global variable.