Brian Nelson (a fine Debian AM) has helped me package up nickle for Debian. It was a bit confusing at first, but I learned quite a bit about the difference between development and distribution in the process.
Now that nickle is all nicely packaged, I'm hoping to get it uploaded to unstable soonish. I think my parts of the application process are done; now to wait for the DAM and Front Desk to review things and (presumably) create an account so I can actually get stuff into unstable.