With this patch, you can successfully package vbam

(well, i had to delete vbam-sdl and vbam-wx lines in debian/control to successfully make a package, but it is NOT in this patch). Take a look!

debian/changelog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+vbam (1.8.0.1229-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * Use new version from upstream
+
+ -- Sérgio Benjamim <sergio_br2@yahoo.com.br>  Sat, 26 Apr 2014 02:10:00 +0100
+
 vbam (1.8.0.1042-1) lucid; urgency=low
 
   * Use new version from upstream
@@ -14,7 +20,7 @@ vbam (1.8.0.1001-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Use new version from upstream
 
- -- Bastien Bouclet <bbouclet@lapin>  Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:25:25 +0100
+ -- Bastien Bouclet <bgk@users.sourceforge.net>  Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:25:25 +0100
 
 vbam (1.8.0.914-1) unstable; urgency=low
 

debian/compat

@@ -1 +1 @@
-7
+9

debian/control

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 Source: vbam
 Section: otherosfs
 Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Fernando Tarlá Cardoso Lemos <fernandotcl@gmail.com>
+Maintainer: Sérgio Benjamim <sergio_br2@yahoo.com.br>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), cmake, nasm [i386 amd64], libsdl1.2-dev, libgl-dev, libgtkmm-2.4-dev, libgtkglextmm-x11-1.2-dev, libavcodec-dev, libavformat-dev, libswscale-dev, libavutil-dev, wx-common, libcairo2-dev, liblircclient-dev, libopenal-dev, libwxgtk2.8-dev, libsfml-dev, imagemagick, zip
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), cmake, zlib1g-dev, libpng12-dev, imagemagick, libopenal-dev, libsdl1.2-dev, libgtkmm-2.4-dev, libgtkglextmm-x11-1.2-dev, libwxgtk2.8-dev, wx-common, libcairo2-dev, libsfml-dev, nasm [i386 amd64], liblircclient-dev, libavcodec-dev, libavformat-dev, libswscale-dev, libavutil-dev
-Standards-Version: 3.8.1
+Standards-Version: 3.9.4
-Homepage: http://www.vbam.com
+Homepage: http://vba-m.com
+Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/vbam/code/trunk
+Vcs-Browser: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/vbam/code/trunk
 
 Package: vbam-sdl
 Architecture: any

debian/copyright

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:39:52 -0300.
 
 It was downloaded from <svn://vbam.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vbam>
 
-Upstream Author(s):
+Upstream Author:
 
     VisualBoyAdvance-M team
 

debian/source/format

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.0 (quilt)

debian/vbam-gtk.menu

@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-?package(gvbam):needs="X11" section="Applications/Emulators"\
+?package(vbam-gtk):needs="X11" section="Applications/Emulators" title="VisualBoyAdvance-M" command="/usr/bin/gvbam"
-  title="VisualBoyAdvance-M" command="/usr/bin/gvbam"

debian/vbam-wx.menu

@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-?package(vbam-wx):needs="X11" section="Applications/Emulators"\
+?package(vbam-wx):needs="X11" section="Applications/Emulators" title="VisualBoyAdvance-M" command="/usr/bin/wxvbam"
-  title="VisualBoyAdvance-M" command="/usr/bin/wxvbam"