The goal of fpm is to make it easy and quick to build packages such as rpms, debs, OSX packages, etc.
fpm, as a project, exists to help you build packages, therefore:
> mi6 new Foo::Bar # create Foo-Bar distribution
> cd Foo-Bar
> mi6 build # build the distribution and re-generate README.md/META6.json
> mi6 test # run tests
> mi6 release # release!
!!! EXPERIMENTAL !!!
> mi6 dist # make distribution tarball
> mi6 upload # upload distribution tarball to CPAN
for automating Clojure projects without setting your hair on fire