I'll have a crack at auto-converting all gems into debian packages if someone can point me to the "this is what debian packages need to look like" spec. Or the CPAN module->debian package converter that I recently heard about @ OSDC conference. Email drnicwilliams at gmail.com
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.
Just wanted to say thanks. Similar issues years ago were sorted by cpam2rpm years and the Java Packaging Project. I'd love to have proper packages for Gems.
