diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
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+swh-archiver (0.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Create new swh-archiver package
+
+ -- Nicolas Dandrimont <olasd@softwareheritage.org>  Fri, 30 Jun 2017 15:04:49 +0200
diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
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+9
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
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+Source: swh.archiver
+Maintainer: Software Heritage developers <swh-devel@inria.fr>
+Section: python
+Priority: optional
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
+               dh-python,
+               python3-all,
+               python3-nose,
+               python3-setuptools,
+               python3-swh.core,
+               python3-swh.storage,
+               python3-vcversioner
+Standards-Version: 3.9.6
+Homepage: https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/swh-archiver/
+
+Package: python3-swh.archiver
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}
+Description: Software Heritage Archiver
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
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+Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
+
+Files: *
+Copyright: 2015 The Software Heritage developers
+License: GPL-3+
+
+License: GPL-3+
+ This program 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 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 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 3 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
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+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+
+export PYBUILD_NAME=swh-archiver
+
+%:
+	dh $@ --with python3 --buildsystem=pybuild
+
+override_dh_auto_test:
+	PYBUILD_SYSTEM=custom \
+        PYBUILD_TEST_ARGS="cd {build_dir}; python{version} -m nose swh -sva '!db'" \
+        dh_auto_test
+
diff --git a/debian/source/format b/debian/source/format
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+3.0 (quilt)