Bug#608294: ITP: libencode-perl -- provides interfaces between Perl's strings and the system

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>

* Package name    : libencode-perl
  Version         : 2.41
  Upstream Author : Dan Kogai <dankogai@dan.co.jp>
* URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Encode/
* License         : Perl
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : provides interfaces between Perl's strings and the system

 The Encode module provides the interfaces between Perl's strings and the 
 rest of the system.
 .
 When Perl is processing "binary data", the programmer wants Perl to process 
 "sequences of bytes". This is not a problem for Perl - as a byte has 256 
 possible values, it easily fits in Perl's much larger "logical character".
 .
 Encodes a string from Perl's internal form into ENCODING and returns a 
 sequence of octets.

This re-upload will support software requiring newer versions of Encode.pm
than provided in perl packages. See also
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2010/12/msg00096.html>