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



Jon Dowland wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 05:33:20PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
>> This ruby gem is needed by FPM (see my ITP[0]).
>
>Hi Laurent, thanks for the clarification â?? to ask a related question.
>What's the worth of FPM on Debian? Especially given the issues that
>Wouter has raised in the bug¹
>
>¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=22;bug=688896

Quite, I'm concerned on that front too. Do we want to encourage or
make it easier for people to use tools that don't care about our
packaging policies?

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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