Source: libdata-javascript-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7) Build-Depends-Indep: perl (>= 5.8.0-7) Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Jaldhar H. Vyas , Ansgar Burchardt Standards-Version: 3.8.0 Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data-JavaScript/ Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-perl/trunk/libdata-javascript-perl/ Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libdata-javascript-perl/ Package: libdata-javascript-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: dump perl data structures into JavaScript code Data::JavaScript is mainly inteded for CGI programming, when a perl script generates a page with client side JavaScript code that needs access to structures created on the server. . It works by creating one line of JavaScript code per datum. Therefore, structures cannot be created anonymously and need to be assigned to variables. However, this format enables dumping large structures.