Bug#544718: ITP: libasync-interrupt-perl -- Perl module to allow C/XS libraries to interrupt perl

[Jonathan Yu <jawnsy@cpan.org>]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Jonathan Yu <jawnsy@cpan.org>
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-perl@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : libasync-interrupt-perl
  Version         : 1.02
  Upstream Author : Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
* URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Async-Interrupt/
* License         : Artistic | GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : Perl module to allow C/XS libraries to interrupt perl

 Async::Interrupt implements asynchronous interruptions (think "UNIX signals",
 which are very similar). Modules might want to run code asynchronously (in
 another thread, or from a signal handler), and then signal the interpreter on
 certain events. One common way is to write data to a pipe and use an event
 handling toolkit to watch for I/O events. Another way is to send a signal.
 Those methods are slow, and in the case of a pipe, also not asynchronous - it
 won't interrupt a running Perl interpreter.
 .
 This module implements asynchronous notifications that enable you to signal
 running Perl code from another thread, asynchronously, and sometimes even
 without using a single syscall.

NOTE: I'm packaging this as it's now recommended by AnyEvent (libanyevent-perl)