Short answer: Notebook is running (now more of a display and mainboard on top of a wooden frame) again since last Saturday, but I' not finished setting it up. (I'm writing this on running Windows...installed first due to its ability to run some games...)
Frankly, it may take quite some time until I'll think about building packages again, probably when testing out Feisty. If you're lucky I'll set up a vm earlier, but don't rely on this.
But if you know how to build aMule SVN, you'll have no problems packaging them as well. A cheap checkinstall build will be sufficient. I can offer you hosting and advice with writing the necessary files, but I'm not very experienced with Debian packages either.