Looks like we are talking about several different activities here.

One is about make existing n900 system debian-based.
Other is about "package bits from meego.com ..." written by jak just above.

I really don't want to separate those into separate projects.

My goal is to make my existing phone - n900 - debian-based, while keeping all of it's current functionality both while in progress and after done. I'm not against running existing nokia apps within debian infrastructure; value I'm looking for is (1) debian's reliable packaging system, (2) software from debian archive.

I'm not aware of this already done - not in mer, not in pkg-maemo.

This work and work to package meego bits will perfectly complement each other - in future.