[liblinux-pid-perl] 02/04: control

[gregor herrmann]

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commit 5529e4d8744b2f733f0b40e18d1ff99ce0df7956
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org>
Date:   Thu Jul 3 20:34:09 2014 +0200

    control
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 debian/control | 29 +++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 5fa8df8..d829c6c 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 Source: liblinux-pid-perl
+Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
+Uploaders: Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org>,
+           gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org>
 Section: perl
 Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
-Uploaders: Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20120312~),
- perl
+               perl
 Standards-Version: 3.9.5
 Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/liblinux-pid-perl.git
 Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/liblinux-pid-perl.git
@@ -12,16 +13,16 @@ Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Linux-Pid
 
 Package: liblinux-pid-perl
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
-Description: unknown
- Why should one use a module to get the PID and the PPID of a process where
- there are the $$ variable and the getppid() builtin ? (Not mentioning the
- equivalent POSIX::getpid() and POSIX::getppid() functions.)
+Depends: ${misc:Depends},
+         ${perl:Depends},
+         ${shlibs:Depends}
+Description: wrapper around the getpid() and getppid() C functions
+ Perl already returns the PID and PPID in variables and builtins. Linux::Pid
+ forces perl to call the underlying C functions getpid() and getppid().
  .
- In fact, this is useful on Linux, with multithreaded programs. Linux' C
- library, using the linux thread model, returns different values of the PID
- and the PPID from different threads. (Other thread models such as NPTL don't
- have the same behaviour). Linux::Pid forces perl to call the underlying C
- functions getpid() and getppid().
+ This is useful with multithreaded programs. Linux' C library, using the Linux
+ thread model, returns different values of the PID and the PPID from different
+ threads.
  .
- This description was automagically extracted from the module by dh-make-perl.
+ A known consumer of this functionality is Apache2::SizeLimit (in
+ libapache2-mod-perl2).

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