Package: libtask-weaken-perl Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: perl Installed-Size: 25 Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> [Debian Bug Report] Architecture: all Version: 1.06-2 Depends: perl:any 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. Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Task-Weaken Files owned by package libtask-weaken-perl: /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/libtask-weaken-perl /usr/share/doc/libtask-weaken-perl/CONTRIBUTING /usr/share/doc/libtask-weaken-perl/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libtask-weaken-perl/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/libtask-weaken-perl/copyright /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man3 /usr/share/man/man3/Task::Weaken.3pm.gz /usr/share/perl5 /usr/share/perl5/Task /usr/share/perl5/Task/Weaken.pm