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v0.24.0 Growing

A pure rust library for building and parsing RPMs

Apache-2.0 OR MIT Edition 2024 MSRV 1.88.0

Quick Verdict

  • โœ“Actively maintained (updated 1d ago)
  • !Pre-1.0: API may have breaking changes
  • โœ“Trusted by 256 crates
  • !Heavy dependency tree (35 direct deps)
  • โœ“Permissive license (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)

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Downloads
868.1K
Dependents
256
Releases
32
Size
401KB

Deep Insights

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Steady growth

90.7K downloads in the last 30 days (3.0K/day), up 19% from the previous period.

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Moderate adoption

256 crates depend on rpm. Reasonable ecosystem adoption, though not yet a core dependency.

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Pre-1.0 for over a year

Despite being 8+ years old, rpm hasn't reached 1.0 yet. Expect potential API changes between versions.

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Heavy dependency tree

35 direct dependencies. Consider the impact on compile times and supply chain complexity.

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Used by top crates

Notable dependents include tauri-bundler, dioxus-cli, cargo-generate-rpm, bootupd, rpmoci. When high-quality crates choose rpm, it's a strong quality signal.

Health Breakdown

Maintenance 18/25

Recency, release consistency, active ratio

Quality 14/25

Yanked ratio, deps, size, maturity, features

Community 14/20

Reverse deps, ownership, ecosystem

Popularity 7/15

Downloads, momentum, growth trend

Documentation 12/15

Docs, repo, license, metadata

Download Trend

Daily downloads ยท last 90 days
3K/day avg+28%
01K2K3K4K5K2/263/164/34/215/95/26

Top Dependents

Version Adoption

v0.20.0
37%
v0.23.4
23%
v0.23.2
16%
v0.23.5
16%
v0.22.0
8%

Release Timeline

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Feature Flags

default =["signature-pgp", "payload", "gzip-compression", "zstd-compression", "xz-compression"]

pythonzstdmtpayload*signature-pgp*signature-metaxz-compression*gzip-compression*test-with-podmanzstd-compression*bzip2-compression

README

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Maintainers

Dependencies
35
direct dependencies
Dependents
256
crates depend on rpm

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