Source: libtask-weaken-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 4.1.4 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libtask-weaken-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libtask-weaken-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Task-Weaken Package: libtask-weaken-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: module for ensuring that a platform has weaken support One recurring problem in modules that use Scalar::Util's weaken function is that it is not present in the pure-perl variant. . While this isn't necessarily always a problem in a straight CPAN-based Perl environment, some operating system distributions only include the pure-Perl versions, don't include the XS version, and so weaken is then "missing" from the platform, despite passing a dependency on Scalar::Util successfully. . The normal solution is to manually write tests in each distribution to ensure that weaken is available. . Task::Weaken restores the functionality testing to a dependency you do once in your Makefile.PL, rather than something you have to write extra tests for each time you write a module.