Bug#946423: ITP: ruby-optimist -- Commandline option parser for Ruby that just gets out of your way.

[Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <ssm@debian.org>

* Package name    : ruby-optimist
  Version         : 3.0.0
  Upstream Author : William Morgan, Keenan Brock, Jason Frey
* URL             : https://www.manageiq.org/optimist/
* License         : MIT/Expat
  Programming Lang: Ruby
  Description     : Commandline option parser for Ruby that just gets out of your way.


Upstream description
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Optimist is a commandline option parser for Ruby that just gets out of your
way.  One line of code per option is all you need to write. For that, you get a
nice automatically-generated help page, robust option parsing, and sensible
defaults for everything you don't specify.

Features:

- Dirt-simple usage.
- Sensible defaults. No tweaking necessary, much tweaking possible.
- Support for long options, short options, subcommands, and automatic type
  validation and conversion.
- Automatic help message generation, wrapped to current screen width.


Packaging and maintenance
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The upstream project name has been changed from trollop to optimist.
(https://github.com/ManageIQ/optimist/issues/92)

ruby-optimist is a dependency for hiera-eyaml >= 3.0.0, and needs to be
available before newer versions of hiera-eyaml can be imported.

ruby-optimist will be maintained under the debian-ruby team umbrella.