If anyone's interested, I compiled aircrack-ng just a few months ago (around the time / just before) Creamy compiled his. I don't do any of this .deb stuff, but I can provide a .tar file that you unpackage into /, which will place the aircrack binaries into /opt/[s]bin/ and will place their respective symlinks into /[s]bin/. (In noob terms, it's optified and thus doesn't take rootfs space. Not that aircrack takes up that much space anyway, but yeah.) It's also compiled with stuff like airolib-ng and experimental stuff that's part of the aircrack-ng svn code base. I think everyone should be fine with Creamy's package, but might as well toss the offer out.

It's less fancy, but you completely bypass all the apt and dpkg stuff like dependencies. Just apt-get install iw, and then unpack this. Or unpack and then install iw. Doesn't really matter I believe.

I was tempted a while ago to ask to be the maintainer of the aircrack-ng package, but I don't know what I'm doing well enough with this whole .deb packaging thing, so that's gonna have to wait.