I missed this thread, caught it on the planet, and am reposting with a 
new subject as it's quite a milestone for Squeak. Thank you José and 
other contributors.

-Simon


José Luis Redrejo wrote:
> squeak-vm has just been officially accepted in Debian.
...

> As Bert suggested, dealing with the difference licenses in the sources 
> has been the worst part of the packaging.
> I hope the package will be useful, I've tried to make it fully 
> compatible with current packaging schema in squeak.org 
> <http://squeak.org>, but has added some things to make it more desktop 
> friendly, thinking more in the teachers and students than in the 
> developers who don't use to have problems in managing it.
> 
> Regards.
> José L.
> 
> P.S. The package contains a patch to fix a 64 bits problem and a license 
> file that was lost in the svn, so maybe somebody with access to the 
> upstream svn could upload these patches.
...

 > Yes, the only plugin removed from the current svn sources is MPEG3Plugin.
 > All the info on the changes done to the upstream sources are at
 > 
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/s/squeak-vm/squeak-vm_3.9.12+svn1820.dfsg-1/changelog