Backport wireless-tools

This one is as simple as Backport dar, except that there is a missing build dependency from stable: debhelper 5. debhelper was already backported so you just have to install it:

aptitude install debhelper/sarge-backports

Beware though that when using dh_gconf (eg for Gnome packages), there is a bug. What's its status now?

Trick 1: to see your backports in your Debian QA page (eg [1]), add your e-mail in the debian/control files as well:

Uploaders: Sylvain Beucler <beuc@beuc.net>

(source: [2])

Then, the package builds cleanly:

dch -i
debuild -us -uc

Trick 2: you may want to includes the last 2 changelog entries in his your .changes files (yours + the last upstream one, instead of just yours). This is nice, because you know what improvements you can get just by reading the mail notification:

debuild -us -uc -v27+28pre16-1

Currently you need to manually specify the version, I don't know of an automated way to do so, even though it's shouldn't be hard to do.