more work done... still 100% untested, and i need to finish the package lists, but i have a testing platform built for all the distros.

lib/prereqs/Debian/meta

@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 NAME='Debian'
 SUPPORTED='yes'
-CHECK_METHOD='egrep "^[0-9.]*$" /etc/debian_version'
-CHECK_METHOD='egrep "^NAME=\"Debian\ GNU/Linux\"" /etc/os-release'
+CHECK_METHOD='egrep "^NAME=\"Debian\ GNU/Linux\"$" /etc/os-release'
 PKG_MGR='apt-get -y install ${pkgname}'
 PRE_RUN='apt-get update'
-PKG_CHK='dpkg-query -l ${pkgname}'
+PKG_CHK='dpkg-query -l ${pkgname} | egrep "^ii[[:space:]]*${pkgname}"'
 URL='http://www.debian.org/'

lib/prereqs/Debian/pkgs

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+git
+curl
+dosfstools
+libisoburn1
+lynx
+rsync
+sed
+squashfs-tools
+xorriso
+xz-utils