DebControl

DebControl contains helper classes to read Debian control files. Write support is planed.

This gem is under development. Every 0.x release might break backwards compatibility.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'deb_control', '~> 0.0.1'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install deb_control

The Class DebControl::ControlFileBase implements a generic parser for control files:

control = DebControl::ControlFileBase.read 'debian/control'
# receive the array from paragraphs:
control.paragraphs.size
# receive fields of paragraph:
control.paragraphs.first['Source']

Each paragraph is a Hash containing its fields and values.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request