Section: interpreters
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <torin@daft.com>
Source: perl
Standards-Version: 2.1.1.0

Package: perl
Priority: Important
Architecture: any
Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Pre-Depends}
Suggests: perl-suid, perl-debug
Replaces: io
Provides: io
Conflicts: io
Description: Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Language.
 An interpreted scripting language, known among some as "Unix's
 Swiss Army Chainsaw".
 .
 Perl is optimized for scanning arbitrary text files and system 
 administration. It has built-in extended regular expression matching
 and replacement, a dataflow mechanism to improve security with
 setuid scripts and is extendible via modules that can interface
 to C libraries.

Package: perl-suid
Priority: Standard
Architecture: any
Depends: perl (=${Source-Version})
Description: Runs setuid perl scripts.
 This can be a security hole but it is much safer than shell scripts and
 with -Tw can be much safer than setuid executables.

Package: perl-debug
Priority: Optional
Architecture: any
Depends: perl (=${Source-Version})
Description: Allow debugging perl scripts (and perl).
 Truly extensive and exhaustive output is possible with different settings.