Source: libnet-route-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Christopher Hoskin Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), perl, net-tools, libmodule-build-perl Build-Depends-Indep: libipc-run3-perl, libmoose-perl, libnetaddr-ip-perl, libreadonly-perl, libtest-exception-perl, libtest-perl-critic-perl Standards-Version: 3.9.8 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libnet-route-perl.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libnet-route-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Net-Route Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Package: libnet-route-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, libipc-run3-perl, libmoose-perl, libnetaddr-ip-perl, libreadonly-perl Description: portable interface to the routing table Every OS provides its custom interface to the routing table: Linux's "route" utility is different from BSD's "route show", from Windows' "route print", etc. Parsing all these different output styles in an (otherwise portable) script can quickly become inconvenient. . Net::Route abstracts the system specifics and provides a single, portable interface.