Bug#678307: perl: Description does not well reflect what Perl is

[Kjetil Kjernsmo]

Package: perl
Version: 5.10.1-17squeeze3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch


The current description of Perl in the Debian perl package doesn't
well represent what Perl is about these days. Improved descriptions
have been bouncing around in the Perl community, may I suggest one
written by Chris Nehren? Here is a better description:


Perl is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over
20 years of development. Perl 5 runs on over 100 platforms from
portables to mainframes. Perl is suitable for both rapid prototyping
and large scale development projects.

Perl 5 supports many programming styles, including procedural,
functional, and object-oriented. In addition to this, it is supported
by an ever-growing collection of reusable modules which accelerate
development. Some of these modules include Web frameworks, database
integration, networking protocols, and encryption. Perl provides
interfaces to C and C++ for custom extension development.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages perl depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0             1.0.5-6+squeeze1  high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                  2.11.3-3          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdb4.7               4.7.25-9          Berkeley v4.7 Database Libraries [
ii  libgdbm3               1.8.3-9           GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  perl-base              5.10.1-17squeeze3 minimal Perl system
ii  perl-modules           5.10.1-17squeeze3 Core Perl modules
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3  compression library - runtime

Versions of packages perl recommends:
ii  netbase                       4.45       Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages perl suggests:
ii  libterm-readline-gnu-p 1.20-1            Perl extension for the GNU ReadLin
ii  libterm-readline-perl- 1.0303-1          Perl implementation of Readline li
ii  make                   3.81-8            An utility for Directing compilati
ii  perl-doc               5.10.1-17squeeze3 Perl documentation

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