On Wed, 2 May 2007, Stephen Touset wrote:

> I've been writing a multiplatform packaging tool for the company I work
> for, dubbed "pallet".
[...]
> Right now, gem and dpkg are the only formats supported, although adding 
> .tar.gz should be trivial, and .rpm should be simple enough for anyone 
> who's built an RPM.

Have you been talking to Debian's Ruby packagers? Mutating this into 
something like "rake dpkg", that would automagically turn any ruby gem 
into a Debian package would be brilliant :-o
*t

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