Source: node-normalize-git-url Section: web Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Thorsten Alteholz Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) , dh-buildinfo , nodejs Standards-Version: 3.9.7 Homepage: https://github.com/npm/normalize-git-url Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-javascript/node-normalize-git-url.git Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-javascript/node-normalize-git-url.git Package: node-normalize-git-url Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , nodejs Description: normalizes Git URLs You have a bunch of Git URLs. You want to convert them to a canonical representation, probably for use inside npm so that it doesn't end up creating a bunch of superfluous cached origins. You use this package. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.