I know this is an old thread but I don't think anyone responded with this response:
There is someone working on KDE- his name is Ivan Moore, this was posted here a week or so ago- here is where to find the debs: http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian/dists/ >From what I have seen Ivan has been putting some work into this, the packages have been changing to newer revisions and I have seen some bugs disappearing. The last time I checked kworldwatch was not working and a couple of other little things, this may have changed. Kasteriods is missing some graphics and doesn't work either. Except for that it works quite well from my experience. Like I said, he has been working on it and I expect to see these problems disappear if they haven't already. On the general subject of "faking" debian packages. I am a convert to alien- it doesn't always work (I think this is due to bad rpms) but usually it does. Just type "alien [name of rpm file]" and boom- instant package. if you type "dpkg - I [name of debian package]" then deselect will give you most of what you need to make an entry in a packages file for all of your locally maintained packages. Just look at the archives and see how those package files are formatted, I have been adding a "filename" entry, apt apparently needs this (it can be kind of tricky to get right). Doing this you can have apt or deselect keep track of these mavrick packages for you. Read the packages.list man page too. I realize this is an abbreviated description- if you really want me to, bug me and I'll go into it in more detail. Anyway, its not for everybody but it is kind of nice once its done and it seems to work fine for me.
