diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
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+tree-sitter (0.19.0-1+swh1) unstable-swh; urgency=medium
+
+  * Initial release
+
+ -- Vincent Sellier <vincent.sellier@softwareheritage.org>  Tue, 17 Aug 2021 19:01:56 +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: tree-sitter
+Section: python
+Priority: optional
+Maintainer: swh sysadm <swh-sysadm@inria.fr>
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
+			   dh-python,
+			   libc6,
+			   python3-all,
+			   python3-dev,
+			   python3-setuptools,
+Standards-Version: 4.5.1
+X-Python3-Version: >= 3.6
+Homepage: https://github.com/tree-sitter/py-tree-sitter
+
+Package: python3-tree-sitter
+Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: same
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, 
+		 ${misc:Depends},
+		 ${python3:Depends},
+		 libc6
+Description: Python bindings to the Tree-sitter parsing library
+
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
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+Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
+Upstream-Name: python3-tree-sitter
+Source: https://github.com/tree-sitter/py-tree-sitter
+
+Files: *
+Copyright: Copyright (c) 2019 Max Brunsfeld, GitHub
+License: The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Files: debian/*
+Copyright: 2021 swh sysadm <swh-sysadm@inria.fr>
+License: Apache License 2
diff --git a/debian/gbp.conf b/debian/gbp.conf
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+[DEFAULT]
+upstream-branch=debian/upstream
+upstream-tag=debian/upstream/%(version)s
+debian-branch=debian/unstable-swh
+pristine-tar=True
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
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+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+
+export PYBUILD_NAME=tree-sitter
+
+%:
+	dh $@ --with python3 --buildsystem=pybuild
+
diff --git a/debian/source/format b/debian/source/format
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+3.0 (quilt)