Source: libterm-readpassword-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Jay Bonci , gregor herrmann Standards-Version: 3.9.7 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Term-ReadPassword Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libterm-readpassword-perl.git Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libterm-readpassword-perl.git Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Package: libterm-readpassword-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Description: prompt user for a password Term::ReadPassword lets you ask the user for a password in the traditional way, from the keyboard, without echoing. . The read_password function prompts for input, reads a line of text from the keyboard, then returns that line to the caller. The line of text doesn't include the newline character, so there's no need to use chomp.