Only thing I don't like about the New Maintainers Guide, from what I've read, is it pretty much assumes you're dealing with a source package (.tar.gz) to be used with automake...

In this case of Python/perl things.. there is no source package. The source IS the binaries. All you need to do is make your structure, create a control/copywrite/changelog file, and make the package.

Seems it would be a bit easier than the dh_make method of doing things..