Re: Bug#704686: ITP: ruby-arr-pm -- RPM reader and writer Ruby library

[Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>]

> Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> >Package: wnpp
> >Severity: wishlist
> >Owner: Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>
> >
> >* Package name    : ruby-arr-pm
> >  Version         : 0.0.8
> >  Upstream Author : Jordan Sissel <jls@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