simple-brightness-applet was immensely simple to port, please look at git commits here:

https://github.com/maemo-leste/simple-brightness-applet

All I did was:

1. wget http://repository.maemo.org/extras/p...1maemo0.tar.gz
2. tar xf simple-brightness-applet_1.1-1maemo0.tar.gz
3. cd simple-brightness-applet-1.1/
4. dpkg-buildpackage -uc -b
5. dpkg -i ../simple-brightness-applet_1.1-1maemo0_amd64.deb

Then I extracted the tar again, turned it into a git repository (first commit), added gbp.conf (second commit) and changed the changelog (last commit). Made a tag to match the changelog release (git tag 2.0 ; git push --tags)

Then I added it to our jenkins instance, and fired off the job:

https://phoenix.maemo.org/job/simple...plet-binaries/

And now it's in our main repo. (It probably needs to go into an -extras repo instead, but we're working on it and will move it over soon)

https://maedevu.maemo.org/leste/pool...htness-applet/