I've successfully cross-compiled my first program, p7zip for arm. I manually copied the arm binary to my N800, and it correctly compresses and decompresses some example files.

I'm now at the stage where I'm trying to create a .deb, and have the control file and changelog, but the Maemo Tutorial isn't real clear about what needs to be in the "rules file". I've read through the debian new maintainers manual, but the example there seems pretty convoluted for my needs. Could someone post or point me to a fairly simple rules file? p7zip compiles to a single binary, plus the associated man files. I'm just not sure how much needs to be included for a CLI app on Maemo.