Backport Evince

For simplicity I essentially dropped the nautilus integration (thumbnails, etc.).

Step 1

$ apt-get build-dep evince
[...]
No candidate version found for libdjvulibre-dev
No candidate version found for libnautilus-extension-dev

Dependency 1: libdjvulibre-dev

libdjvulibre-dev (v3.15) is missing, and is only available with etch and later. sarge doesn't countain - by mistake - a -dev package for libdjvulibre1 (v3.14), otherwise we could have used that one and skip another backport.

Backporting lidjvulibre-dev

build-dep reports one missing dependency: libqt3-mt-dev.

In debian/control, change libqt3-mt-dev from version 3:3.3.4-4 to version 3:3.3.4-3 (stable) - ain't it precise ;) If I got it right, -4 switches to xorg, so better stay stable.

Dependency 2: libnautilus-extension-dev

Backporting the library essentially means backporting nautilus and probably a couple dependencies from Gnome. We'll desactivate it instead:

Remove it from debian/control.
In debian/rules, modify DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS and add the --disable-nautilus option

Step 2

$ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
[...]

Dependency 3: gnome-doc-utils

gnome-doc-utils is required with version > 0.3, while we're using v0.1 from sarge). It was detected at ./configure time only because the debian/control dependency did not specify a version.

This one is pretty simple to solve:

apt-src install --build --keep-built gnome-doc-utils

(using the sid version)

You now can build your .debs with dpkg-buildpackage :)