Ah hah! Now I can be of assistance.

dh_make will walk you through creating the debian files. Edit debian/rules to add configure directives, and then finally type dpkg_buildpackage -rfakeroot to build the debian package. These are all executed from where the makefile is.

As far as word import, it's a problem with wv not detecting proper conversion filters from the Word charset. I'm at a loss as to how to fix it.

You need most of those libs even with printing disabled, so it's not too bad.

FYI - the bug for the word import is now upstream: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10961

We really do want to work with anyone on Maemo, so if you're building Abi/deps (how to get a deb of libgsf/wv/enchant?) please send your information, patches, etc to the AbiWord list, and if they're reasonable, they'll likely be integrated so that we don't have little islands of knowledge outside of Abi that may disappear...

libgsf/wv/enchant are all built from source by the same process, at least for the releases I did.

I've sent an email to try to get the /debian directories from the person who put together the official AbiWord on Maemo packages and the dependencies. Once I have those (or a reasonable analog) I will try updating wv to the latest SVN revision, which contains a potential fix for the import problem. If that is successful, the maintainer of wv will release wv 1.2.5 with the fix, otherwise we'll work more on figuring out what it is. With luck I will be able to build a bora version of AbiWord 2.4.6 officially and get it in the repositories soon after getting the /debian files.

This is only to say that I (and most probably a lot of people out there) appreciate your work and would be happy to help. If you need any kind of testing just ask. A proper wp for maemo is just too important.