Source: ruby-base64 Section: ruby Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Ruby Team Uploaders: Cédric Boutillier Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), gem2deb (>= 1) Standards-Version: 4.7.0 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/ruby-base64.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/ruby-base64 Homepage: https://github.com/ruby/base64 Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-ruby Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: ruby-base64 Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${ruby:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: support for encoding and decoding binary data using a Base64 representation This Ruby library provides methods to easily encode and decode binary data using a Base64 representation. . The purpose of using base64 to encode data is that it translates any binary data into purely printable characters. . This package provides a newer version than the one bundled with the current ruby interpreter.