I just built a deb of the 2008-05-R1 kismet tree using dpkg-buildpackage. It complained about ncurses, but looking at config.log I didn't have libgpsbt-dev and libgpsmgr-dev installed. And maybe not libgps and it depends on these but they aren't listed in the debian dependency section.

I haven't tried it yet.

I will have to rebuild sox and see if I can do a deb (I'm starting to use maemo.org and hope to start putting things in the extras-devel).