4 Maintainer: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
5 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), perl (>= 5.8.0-3)
6 Standards-Version: 3.7.3
7 Homepage: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Filter/
9 Package: libfilter-perl
11 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}
12 Suggests: libcompress-zlib-perl
13 Description: Perl source filters
14 Source filters alter the program text of a module before Perl sees it, much
15 as a C preprocessor alters the source text of a C program before the
18 This package contains a number of source filters, including:
20 exec and sh: pipe the source file through an external command
21 cpp: pipe the source file through the C preprocessor
22 decrypt: example of simple (though weak!) source obfuscation
23 tee: copy filtered source to a file (debugging aid)
25 A substantial amount of documentation and examples is also included.