Sounds like a great project. You might want to ping the debian team, and see where things currently stand; If they don't want to accept your auto-packaged debs

Sounds like a great project. You might want to ping the debian team, and see where things currently stand; If they don't want to accept your auto-packaged debs, you could set up your own repository, and auto-push them there.. That way people could pull in the Ruby Gems from there on a regular basis, as soon as they are auto-updated, without waiting for them to be released officially. Debian team policy: http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/rubygems.html How to create packages: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-debpkg.html http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-debpkg.htm... http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/ http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Buil... http://quietsche-entchen.de/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/CreatingDebianPackages http://quietsche-entchen.de/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/CreatingDebianP... They're basically just tarballs with a pre and postscript, questions via debconf, and the dependencies mapped out in a manifest.