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This is debian squeeze.

I'm afraid I can't reproduce this:

root@2771test:~# facter operatingsystem
Debian
root@2771test:~# facter operatingsystemrelease
6.0.7
root@2771test:~# apt-get install foreman
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  binutils build-essential bundler bzip2 cpp cpp-4.4 dpkg-dev fakeroot foreman-proxy g++ g++-4.4 gcc gcc-4.4 libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl
  libalgorithm-merge-perl libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libdpkg-perl libgmp3c2 libgomp1 libkrb5-ruby libkrb5-ruby1.8 libmpfr4 librack-ruby1.8 libsinatra-ruby libsinatra-ruby1.8
  libstdc++6-4.4-dev libtimedate-perl linux-libc-dev make manpages-dev rake ruby-dev ruby1.8-dev rubygems rubygems1.8 unzip zip
Suggested packages:
  binutils-doc bzip2-doc cpp-doc gcc-4.4-locales debian-keyring g++-multilib g++-4.4-multilib gcc-4.4-doc libstdc++6-4.4-dbg gcc-multilib autoconf automake1.9 libtool
  flex bison gdb gcc-doc gcc-4.4-multilib libmudflap0-4.4-dev libgcc1-dbg libgomp1-dbg libmudflap0-dbg libcloog-ppl0 libppl-c2 libppl7 glibc-doc mongrel thin1.8
  libstdc++6-4.4-doc make-doc
Recommended packages:
  rubygems-integration
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  binutils build-essential bundler bzip2 cpp cpp-4.4 dpkg-dev fakeroot foreman foreman-proxy g++ g++-4.4 gcc gcc-4.4 libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl
  libalgorithm-merge-perl libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libdpkg-perl libgmp3c2 libgomp1 libkrb5-ruby libkrb5-ruby1.8 libmpfr4 librack-ruby1.8 libsinatra-ruby libsinatra-ruby1.8
  libstdc++6-4.4-dev libtimedate-perl linux-libc-dev make manpages-dev rake ruby-dev ruby1.8-dev rubygems rubygems1.8 unzip zip
0 upgraded, 40 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 52.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 124 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

You can see that ruby-dev is already a dependency and included in the list of packages to be installed. However, I think it's actually inherited from the Recommended Packages of rubygems right now - have you turned off recommend packages?

Yes,

APT::Install-Recommends "false";

Greg, I was able to reproduce on squeeze with APT::Install-Recommends "false";. I wanted to make a PR adding ruby-dev package to dependencies however we seem to support 1.8 and 1.9 there. For wheezy we already have ruby1.9.1-dev among Depends. What is the right way? Looking to some other debs which support rubies they usually create a metapackage which installs ruby1.8 + ruby1.8-dev and ruby1.9 + ruby1.9-dev.

Marek, I think it's fine to just add ruby-dev to the deps list, as squeeze only has 1.9 available from backports, if I recall correctly.