Source: libgetopt-argparse-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Nick Morrott Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) Build-Depends-Indep: libmoo-perl (>= 1.003), libtest-exception-perl, perl Standards-Version: 3.9.8 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libgetopt-argparse-perl.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libgetopt-argparse-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Getopt-ArgParse Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Package: libgetopt-argparse-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, libmoo-perl (>= 1.003), libtest-exception-perl Description: module to parse @ARGV with a richer and more user-friendly API Getopt::ArgParse provides the following features: . - Generating usage messages - Storing parsed arg values in an object, which can be also used to load configuration values from files and therefore the ability for applications to combine configurations in a single interface - A more user-friendly interface to specify arguments, such as argument types, argument values split, etc. - Subcommand parsing, such svn - Supporting both flag based named arguments and positional arguments . Getopt::ArgParse provides similar functionality to Python's argparse module.