Source: libdata-javascript-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Ansgar Burchardt Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10) Build-Depends-Indep: perl Standards-Version: 4.1.1 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libdata-javascript-perl.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libdata-javascript-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Data-JavaScript Rules-Requires-Root: no 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.