> Laurent Bigonville wrote: > >Package: wnpp > >Severity: wishlist > >Owner: Laurent Bigonville <bi...@debian.org> > > > >* Package name : ruby-arr-pm > > Version : 0.0.8 > > Upstream Author : Jordan Sissel <j...@semicomplete.com> > >* URL : https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm > >* License : Apache 2.0 > > Programming Lang: Ruby > > Description : RPM reader and writer Ruby library > > > >This Ruby library allows to you to read and write rpm packages. > >Written in pure ruby because librpm is not available on all systems > > I'm very curious - why would we want this in Debian? Surely librpm > *is* available on all the systems we support?
Hi, This ruby gem is needed by FPM (see my ITP[0]). FPM is able to create .deb but also .rpm from different sources (a directory, a gem file, an other rpm...). I should maybe rephrase the description if you prefer. Cheers Laurent Bigonville [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688896 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130409173320.558b1...@soldur.bigon.be
