Source: libtext-levenshteinxs-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20120312~), perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann Standards-Version: 3.9.5 Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libtext-levenshteinxs-perl.git Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libtext-levenshteinxs-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Text-LevenshteinXS Package: libtext-levenshteinxs-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: XS implementation of the Levenshtein edit distance Text::LevenshteinXS implements the Levenshtein edit distance in a XS way; this should be much faster than the pure Perl implementation. . The Levenshtein edit distance is a measure of the degree of proximity between two strings. This distance is the number of substitutions, deletions or insertions ("edits") needed to transform one string into the other one (and vice versa). When two strings have distance 0, they are the same.