diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
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+gf (2.5) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Initial packaging.
+ 
+ -- Bjorn Bringert <bringert@cs.chalmers.se>  Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:12:25 +0100
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
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+Source: gf
+Priority: optional
+Section: science
+Maintainer: Bjorn Bringert <bringert@cs.chalmers.se>
+Build-Depends: debhelper, autoconf, ghc6 (>= 6.4.1-1)
+Standards-Version: 3.6.2
+
+Package: gf
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
+Description: Tools for GF, a grammar formalism based on type theory
+ Grammatical Framework (GF) is a grammar formalism based on type theory. 
+ It consists of a special-purpose programming language,
+ a compiler of the language, and a generic grammar processor.
+ .
+ Homepage: http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~aarne/GF/
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
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+This package was Debianized by Bjorn Bringert <bringert@cs.chalmers.se>
+on 2006-03-21. 
+
+The upstream sources for this version come from the GF darcs repository
+at http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Language-technology/darcs/GF/
+
+Authors and copyright licenses:
+
+Copyright (C):
+  Bjorn Bringert, Hakan Burden, Hans-Joachim Daniels, Markus Forsberg,
+  Thomas Hallgren, Harald Hammarstrom, Kristofer Johannisson,
+  Janna Khegai, Peter Ljunglof, Petri Maenpaa, and Aarne Ranta,
+  1998-2006.
+
+You are free to distribute this software under the terms of
+the GNU General Public License.
+On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
+License can be found in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
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+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+# -*- makefile -*-
+# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
+# This file was originally written by Joey Hess and Craig Small.
+# As a special exception, when this file is copied by dh-make into a
+# dh-make output file, you may use that output file without restriction.
+# This special exception was added by Craig Small in version 0.37 of dh-make.
+
+# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
+#export DH_VERBOSE=1
+
+
+export DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE  ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
+export DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)
+
+# FOR AUTOCONF 2.52 AND NEWER ONLY
+ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE), $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE))
+  confflags += --build $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
+else
+  confflags += --build $(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --host $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
+endif
+
+
+configure: configure-stamp
+configure-stamp:
+	dh_testdir
+	# Add here commands to configure the package.
+	cd src && autoconf
+
+	touch configure-stamp
+
+
+build: build-stamp
+
+build-stamp: configure-stamp 
+	dh_testdir
+
+	# Add here commands to compile the package.
+	./configure $(confflags)
+
+	$(MAKE) unix
+	#docbook-to-man debian/gf.sgml > gf.1
+
+	touch build-stamp
+
+clean:
+	dh_testdir
+	dh_testroot
+	rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp
+
+	# Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
+	-$(MAKE) clean
+
+	dh_clean 
+
+install: build
+	dh_testdir
+	dh_testroot
+	dh_clean -k 
+	dh_installdirs
+
+	# Add here commands to install the package into debian/gf.
+	$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/gf
+
+
+# Build architecture-independent files here.
+binary-indep: build install
+# We have nothing to do by default.
+
+# Build architecture-dependent files here.
+binary-arch: build install
+	dh_testdir
+	dh_testroot
+	dh_installchangelogs 
+	dh_installdocs
+	dh_installexamples
+#	dh_install
+#	dh_installmenu
+#	dh_installdebconf	
+#	dh_installlogrotate
+#	dh_installemacsen
+#	dh_installpam
+#	dh_installmime
+#	dh_installinit
+#	dh_installcron
+#	dh_installinfo
+	dh_installman
+	dh_link
+	dh_strip
+	dh_compress
+	dh_fixperms
+#	dh_perl
+#	dh_python
+#	dh_makeshlibs
+	dh_installdeb
+	dh_shlibdeps
+	dh_gencontrol
+	dh_md5sums
+	dh_builddeb
+
+binary: binary-indep binary-arch
+.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install configure