What is the simplest way to create source Debian package?

Question

Suppose you have hello.c

int main() { return 0; }

and Makefile

hello: hello.c
        gcc hello.c -o hello

install: hello
        install -m 755 hello /usr/bin/

The quickest and easiest way to get binary package seems to be to use checkinstall:

fakeroot checkinstall --pkgname hello -y -D --install=no --backup --nodoc --fstrans --pkgversion 0.0.1 make install

How to do similar thing, but for source package (to put it to some source repository or use "dpkg-buildpackage" on it)?

The officicial text is rather long: orig.tar.gz, changelog, control file... Is there something like checkinstall, but for source packages? Additional bonus whould be if it also figures out dependencies automatically (at least partially).