Create Debian/Ubuntu packages for Ohai

Status of packages in Ubuntu:

ohai:
json – libjson-ruby (universe)
extlib – libextlib-ruby (my ppa)

Ubuntu MOTU folks seemed to have expressed that they don't want a bunch of ruby packages to maintain because they are short-handed. It appears that the Ubuntu Way is to make MOTU the 'maintainer' for all packages in Universe, whereas debian defaults to having individuals as maintainers although it sometimes has teams too.

Thom's been active in helping getting packages into debian, and two people have offered to help get them from the debian new repo into ubuntu since the package freeze is coming up soon for ubuntu 9.04

libjson-ruby – in both debian etch and ubuntu intrepid
libextlib-ruby – I've built this package and its in debian new.

As soon as we get a tagged version of ohai we are ready to build an ohai package.

Once OHAI-82 is patched and we get a release, ohai is ready to be shipped to debian via thom.

erubis, abstract, extlib and stomp are now in my debian repo [1] for ubuntu intrepid. the later three are in debian testing.

[1] deb http://ubuntu.ninjr.org/ intrepid chef

Ohai 0.3.0 is available for Ubuntu jaunty via my personal repository [1]
Ohai 0.2.0 has been in Debian squeeze/sid for a while, 0.3.0 was just uploaded and will show up automatically
Ohai 0.2.0 has been in Ubuntu karmic for a while too, as it was automatically synced from Debian squeeze

In the future I'll need to be pinged (irc, ticket here, debian ticket) for new versions and I'll package them and ship them off to thom for upload.

[1] http://gist.github.com/132765