Bug#679900: package description copied from manual page
Martin Eberhard Schauer
Martin.E.Schauer at gmx.de
Mon Jul 2 10:21:51 UTC 2012
Package: libdevel-stacktrace-perl
Version: 1.2700-1
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-l10n-english at lists.debian.org
Dear Perl Maintainers,
translating the description (1) I wondered whether it is too technical.
Actually the text appears to be copied from the manual page (2).
Description: Perl module containing stack trace and stack trace
frame objects
The Devel::StackTrace module contains two classes, Devel::StackTrace
and Devel::StackTraceFrame. The goal of this object is to encapsulate
the information that can found through using the caller() function, as
well as providing a simple interface to this data.
I'm not comfortable with the wording here. I'm not a Perl programmer yet
and I
believe that a module provides code for a class that becomes instantiated in
an object.
.
The Devel::StackTrace object contains a set of Devel::StackTraceFrame
objects, one for each level of the stack. The frames contain all the
data available from caller() as of Perl 5.6.0 though this module still
works with 5.00503.
These are quite old Perl versions. They are not mentioned by upstream
(2) any
more.
.
This code was created to support the Exception::Class::Base class
(part of Exception::Class) but may be useful in other contexts.
I doubt that this is information suitable for the clueless person
considering
whether to install this module.
Please consider this shortened version:
Description: Perl module providing stack trace facilities
The Devel::StackTrace module provides two classes, Devel::StackTrace
and Devel::StackTraceFrame.
.
The Devel::StackTrace object encapsulates the information that can be
obtained by using the caller() function, as well as providing a simple
interface to this data.
.
The Devel::StackTrace object contains a set of Devel::StackTraceFrame
objects, one for each level of the stack. The frames contain all the
data available from caller().
Kind regards,
Martin
1: http://ddtp.debian.net/ddt.cgi?desc_id=61420
1: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-StackTrace/lib/Devel/StackTrace.pm
3: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=232930
Kind regards
Martin
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