Source: node-dashdash Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Pirate Praveen Section: javascript Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-nodejs Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) , dh-sequence-nodejs , node-assert-plus , node-tap Standards-Version: 4.5.1 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-dashdash Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-dashdash.git Homepage: https://github.com/trentm/node-dashdash Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: node-dashdash Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , node-assert-plus Description: light, featureful and explicit option parsing library The author of the library gives this rationale: the other option parsing libraries are one of too loosey goosey (not explicit), too big/too many deps, or ill specified. . This library is a dependency for sshpk, a library to parse, convert, fingerprint and use SSH keys (both public and private) in pure nodejs. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.