diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
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+++ b/debian/changelog
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+monitoring-plugins-systemd (2.3.0+ds-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Initial release. (Closes: #982667, #895278)
+
+ -- Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>  Sat, 13 Feb 2021 00:09:54 -0500
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
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+Source: monitoring-plugins-systemd
+Section: net
+Priority: optional
+Maintainer: Debian Python Team <team+python@tracker.debian.org>
+Uploaders: Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
+               dh-python,
+               dh-exec,
+               python3-all,
+               python3-setuptools,
+               python3-nagiosplugin,
+               python3-pytest,
+               systemd
+Standards-Version: 4.5.1
+Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/monitoring-plugins-systemd.git
+Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/monitoring-plugins-systemd
+Homepage: https://github.com/Josef-Friedrich/check_systemd
+Rules-Requires-Root: no
+
+Package: monitoring-plugins-systemd
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${python3:Depends},
+         ${misc:Depends},
+         python3,
+         python3-nagiosplugin,
+         systemd
+Description: systemd plugin for nagios compatible monitoring systems
+ This systemd check for nagios compatible monitoring systems will report a
+ degraded systemd to your monitoring solution. It can also be used to monitor
+ individual systemd services and timers units.
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
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+++ b/debian/copyright
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+Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
+Upstream-Name: check_systemd
+Upstream-Contact: Josef Friedrich <josef@friedrich.rocks>
+Source: https://github.com/Josef-Friedrich/check_systemd
+Comment:
+ The upstream source tarball is repacked to drop embedded copies of systemd
+ code.
+Files-Excluded:
+ systemd_source_code
+
+Files: *
+Copyright: 2014-2018, Andrea Briganti <kbytesys@gmail.com>
+           2019-2021, Josef Friedrich <josef@friedrich.rocks>
+           2013, Simon Peeters
+License: LGPL-2.1+
+
+Files: debian/*
+Copyright: 2021, Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>
+License: GPL-3+
+
+License: LGPL-2.1+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1, or (at your option)
+ any later version.
+ .
+ On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License version 2.1 can be found in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1’.
+
+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; version 3, or (at your option) any
+ later version.
+ .
+ On Debian systems, the complete text of version 3 of the GNU General
+ Public License can be found in '/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.
diff --git a/debian/monitoring-plugins-systemd.install b/debian/monitoring-plugins-systemd.install
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+++ b/debian/monitoring-plugins-systemd.install
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/usr/bin/dh-exec
+check_systemd.py => usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_systemd
diff --git a/debian/monitoring-plugins-systemd.lintian-overrides b/debian/monitoring-plugins-systemd.lintian-overrides
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+# Monitoring plugins are typically installed in /usr/lib/nagios/plugins
+monitoring-plugins-systemd: executable-in-usr-lib
diff --git a/debian/patches/0001_Fix_Shebang.patch b/debian/patches/0001_Fix_Shebang.patch
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+++ b/debian/patches/0001_Fix_Shebang.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Fix the shebang, since pybuild isn't installing files for us.
+Index: monitoring-plugins-systemd/check_systemd.py
+===================================================================
+--- monitoring-plugins-systemd.orig/check_systemd.py
++++ monitoring-plugins-systemd/check_systemd.py
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-#!/usr/bin/env python3
++#!/usr/bin/python3
+ 
+ """
+ ``check_system`` is a Nagios / Icinga monitoring plugin to check systemd.
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0001_Fix_Shebang.patch
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
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+++ b/debian/rules
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+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+
+export PYBUILD_BEFORE_TEST=cp {dir}/check_systemd.py {dir}/README-template.md {build_dir}
+export PYBUILD_TEST_ARGS=--ignore test/test_subprocess.py
+export PYBUILD_DISABLE=install
+
+%:
+	dh $@  --with python3 --buildsystem=pybuild
diff --git a/debian/source/format b/debian/source/format
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+++ b/debian/source/format
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.0 (quilt)
diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
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+++ b/debian/watch
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+version=4
+opts="mode=git, uversionmangle=s/v//, repacksuffix=+ds, dversionmangle=s/\+ds//,repack" \
+https://github.com/Josef-Friedrich/check_systemd.git \
+refs/tags/([v\d\.]+)