diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
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+berthad (1.0+git20120512.dadbb9aecf) stable; urgency=low
+
+  * Initial release
+
+ -- Wouter Geraedts <w.geraedts@onii.org>  Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:18:14 +0200
diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
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+8
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
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+Source: berthad
+Section: database
+Priority: extra
+Maintainer: Wouter Geraedts <w.geraedts@onii.org>
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.0.0), cmake, cdbs, libglib2.0-dev
+Standards-Version: 3.9.2
+Homepage: https://github.com/bertha/berthad
+
+Package: berthad
+Architecture: any
+Depends: libglib2.0-0, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Description: Simple, fast, no-nonsense TCP server to store blobs of data.
+ BerthaD is a simple, fast, no-nonsense TCP server to store blobs
+ of data by its SHA256 hash with just three operations:
+ PUT, LIST and GET.
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
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+++ b/debian/copyright
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+Format: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5
+Upstream-Name: berthad
+Source: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
+
+Files: *
+Copyright: 2011-2012 Bas Westerbaan <bas@westerbaan.name>
+           2011-2012 Jille Timmermans
+License: AGPL-3
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
+ published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+ License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ .
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ .
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+Files: debian/*
+Copyright: 2012 Wouter Geraedts <w.geraedts@onii.org>
+License: GPL-2+
+ This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+ .
+ This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+ .
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
+ .
+ On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
+ Public License version 2 can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2".
diff --git a/debian/docs b/debian/docs
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+++ b/debian/docs
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+README.md
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
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+++ b/debian/rules
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+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+
+include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
+include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/cmake.mk
diff --git a/debian/source/format b/debian/source/format
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+3.0 (quilt)