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