I know the inline patch in my previous email is self explanatory, but since my email client mangled it, here it is in an attatchment just so I feel better about it :-)
--- debian/control.orig 2010-11-04 16:53:29.000000000 -0700 +++ debian/control 2010-11-04 13:50:03.000000000 -0700 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Source: libmemcached Priority: extra Maintainer: Monty Taylor <mord...@inaugust.com> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50), perl, memcached (>= 1.4.1), automake (>= 1.10), autoconf, libtool +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50), perl, memcached (>= 1.4.1), automake (>= 1.10), autoconf, libtool, libevent-dev Standards-Version: 3.8.4 Section: libs Homepage: http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html