is this to say I can add deb-src path/to/ubuntu/repobugsbunny wrote: However: There should never (and I mean absolutely never) be a need to install Ubuntu binary debs into Debian. Any Ubuntu package should be available as an already Debianized source package, just download the source and compile it on Debian - you can then install it knowing that you won't have any problems. If it won't compile then you probably shouldn't be installing it in any case.
apt-get source ubuntu-package
and then proceed with the normal debian build process?
edit: obviously changing debian/rules (or control - whichever of the two files it is) to point to the equivalent debian dependencies should there be differences?