1 Source: zeroinstall-injector
4 Maintainer: Thomas Leonard <talex5@gmail.com>
5 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.37.2), python-central (>= 0.5)
6 Build-Depends-Indep: python-dev
7 Standards-Version: 3.7.2
8 XS-Python-Version: >= 2.3
10 Package: zeroinstall-injector
12 Depends: ${python:Depends}, gnupg, python-gtk2, bzip2, binutils
13 Recommends: unzip, rpm
15 XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
16 Description: run programs by URL
17 The Zero Install Injector makes it easy for users to install software without
18 needing root privileges. It takes the URL of a program and runs it
19 (downloading it first if necessary). Any dependencies of the program are
20 fetched in the same way. The user controls which version of the program and
21 its dependencies to use.
23 Zero Install is a decentralised installation system (there is no central
24 repository; all packages are identified by URLs), loosly-coupled (if different
25 programs require different versions of a library then both versions are
26 installed in parallel, without conflicts), and has an emphasis on security
27 (all package descriptions are GPG-signed, and contain cryptographic hashes of
28 the contents of each version). Each version of each program is stored in its
29 own sub-directory within the Zero Install cache (nothing is installed to
30 directories outside of the cache, such as /usr/bin) and no code from the
31 package is run during install or uninstall. The system can automatically
32 check for updates when software is run.