Goal here is to document the steps I took in May 2012 to get Boost 1.49 packages backported and working on Lucid, Maverick, Natty, Oneiric, and Precise.
TODO: look into using ubuntu-dev-tools
and backportpackage -s [new_release] -d [old_release] -u [ppa] [package_name]
sudo apt-get install debhelper devscripts dput git-core python pgpgpg