Packaging/Debian
For OpenStack Swift, a Debian packaging guide is available at http://swift.openstack.org/debian_package_guide.html.
For OpenStack Compute, there's currently some ongoing effort to have everything into shape for Debian. Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> is the Debian Developer that is doing the job. Feel free to get in touch with him if you want to help. There's a Debian repository that is available currently for Squeeze. Just use this:
deb http://ftparchive.gplhost.com/debian openstack main
When ready, packages will then be uploaded to Experimental, then to SID.