Source: libalgorithm-diff-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann , Salvatore Bonaccorso , Xavier Guimard Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 4.5.1 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libalgorithm-diff-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libalgorithm-diff-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Algorithm-Diff Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: libalgorithm-diff-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Recommends: libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl Multi-Arch: foreign Description: module to find differences between files Algorithm::Diff is a Perl module that allows users to analyze text based on a Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) algorithm. It can compare two files and find the differences between them, which can produce the same information as the common Unix tool 'diff'. . There is an XS-optimized implementation of the core loop, which accelerates some types of diff output (see libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl).