Source: libgeo-shapelib-perl Maintainer: Debian GIS Project Uploaders: Francesco Paolo Lovergine Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), libshp-dev, libtree-r-perl, perl Standards-Version: 4.1.4 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/libgeo-shapelib-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/libgeo-shapelib-perl.git Homepage: https://github.com/ajolma/Geo-Shapelib Package: libgeo-shapelib-perl Architecture: any Depends: libtree-r-perl, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: Perl extension for reading and writing shapefiles as defined by ESRI Geo::Shapelib is a module to read, create and write shapefiles as defined by ESRI, using Perl. It provides the Perl binding for the Shapelib library. . The Shapefile format is a working and interchange format promoted by ESRI for simple vector data with attributes. It is apparently the only file format that can be edited in ARCView 2/3, and can also be exported and imported in ArcGis.