Source: libtext-soundex-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20120312), perl Standards-Version: 3.9.4 Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libtext-soundex-perl.git Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libtext-soundex-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Text-Soundex/ Package: libtext-soundex-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: implementation of the soundex algorithm Text::Soundex implements the original soundex algorithm developed by Robert Russell and Margaret Odell, patented in 1918 and 1922, as well as a variation called "American Soundex" used for US census data, and current maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).