apt-get install dpkg-dev patch dh-make debhelper devscripts gnupg lintian diffstat
I'm now ready to make my first Debian package. I've spent most of this morning/afternoon reading up on Debian and Ximian development mailing lists. Unfortunately tonight I also found some more problems with Mono on Debian/SPARC after running 'make check', so I don't have anything of interest yet.