Source: ruby-bindata Section: ruby Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Ruby Team Uploaders: Pirate Praveen Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), gem2deb (>= 1), rake Standards-Version: 4.6.1 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/ruby-bindata.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/ruby-bindata Homepage: https://github.com/dmendel/bindata Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-ruby XS-Ruby-Versions: all Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: ruby-bindata Architecture: all XB-Ruby-Versions: ${ruby:Versions} Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${ruby:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: declarative way to read and write binary file formats BinData is a declarative way to read and write binary file formats. . This means the programmer specifies *what* the format of the binary data is, and BinData works out *how* to read and write data in this format. It is an easier ( and more readable ) alternative to ruby's #pack and #unpack methods.