Okay... so in one of the most convoluted ways ever, I seem to have gotten something like what was supposed to be done with iw to happen.

I downgraded debhelper to 5.something, installed debhelper7, added /usr/bin/dh7 to $PATH, and with the debian/compat still being set at 5, everything magically worked. WTF? Now we just have to know if it worked right, and if so, did it work any differently than what I was doing before with the other debian/rules file copied and modified from aircrack-ng... In retrospect I also just realized I took my own thread massively off-topic. *Shrug*

Creamy Goodness, if I send you a set of .source.changes, .dsc, and .tar.gz files, can you make those into .debs and see if they install right on your end (I would, but as I said, I have horrible difficulty with making ,deb files in scratchbox on my end).

- Edit - Actually I just figured out how to get a .deb file along with source package... I'll text the iw .deb I just made on my N900 in a few minutes and go from there...

- Edit 2 -
AHA! It works. At least on my end. Alright, pushing to iw without aircrack-ng to -devel. Assuming the iw maintainer was right and I can do so without being the maintainer.