diff --git a/debian/barrnap.install b/debian/barrnap.install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bf3bf42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/barrnap.install
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bin/barrnap usr/bin
+db usr/share/barrnap
diff --git a/debian/barrnap.manpages b/debian/barrnap.manpages
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..19f429f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/barrnap.manpages
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+debian/man/*
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..635fa30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+barrnap (0.5+dfsg-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * Initial release (Closes: #769641)
+
+ -- Sascha Steinbiss <sascha@steinbiss.name>  Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:12:42 +0000
diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
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index 0000000..ec63514
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+9
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..984f320
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Source: barrnap
+Section: science
+Priority: optional
+Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
+Uploaders: Sascha Steinbiss <sascha@steinbiss.name>
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.0.0), hmmer (>= 3.1)
+Standards-Version: 3.9.6
+Homepage: http://www.vicbioinformatics.com/software.barrnap.shtml
+Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/barrnap/trunk/
+Vcs-Svn: svn://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/barrnap/trunk/
+
+Package: barrnap
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, hmmer (>= 3.1)
+Description: rapid ribosomal RNA prediction
+ Barrnap (BAsic Rapid Ribosomal RNA Predictor) predicts the location of
+ ribosomal RNA genes in genomes. It supports bacteria (5S,23S,16S), archaea
+ (5S,5.8S,23S,16S), mitochondria (12S,16S) and eukaryotes (5S,5.8S,28S,18S).
+ .
+ It takes FASTA DNA sequence as input, and writes GFF3 as output. It uses the
+ NHMMER tool that comes with HMMER 3.1 for HMM searching in RNA:DNA style.
+ Multithreading is supported and one can expect roughly linear speed-ups
+ with more CPUs.
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f22cbf9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
+Upstream-Name: barrnap
+Source: https://github.com/Victorian-Bioinformatics-Consortium/barrnap
+Files-Excluded: binaries/* build/*
+
+Files: *
+Copyright:
+ Copyright 2013 Torsten Seemann <torsten.seemann@monash.edu>
+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 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 3 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.
diff --git a/debian/docs b/debian/docs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b43bf86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/docs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+README.md
diff --git a/debian/files b/debian/files
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8f5dd7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/files
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+barrnap_0.5-1_all.deb science optional
diff --git a/debian/man/barrnap.1 b/debian/man/barrnap.1
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..33dff25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/man/barrnap.1
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.46.2.
+.TH BARRNAP "1" "November 2014" "barrnap 0.4.2" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+barrnap \- rapid ribosomal RNA prediction
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+barrnap [options] <chromosomes.fasta>
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Barrnap predicts the location of ribosomal RNA genes in genomes. It supports
+bacteria (5S,23S,16S), archaea (5S,5.8S,23S,16S), mitochondria (12S,16S) and
+eukaryotes (5S,5.8S,28S,18S).
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+\fB\-\-help\fR
+This help
+.TP
+\fB\-\-version\fR
+Print version and exit
+.TP
+\fB\-\-citation\fR
+Print citation for referencing barrnap
+.TP
+\fB\-\-kingdom\fR [X]
+Kingdom: mito bac arc euk (default 'bac')
+.TP
+\fB\-\-quiet\fR
+No screen output (default OFF)
+.TP
+\fB\-\-threads\fR [N]
+Number of threads/cores/CPUs to use (default '8')
+.HP
+\fB\-\-lencutoff\fR [n.n] Proportional length threshold to label as partial (default '0.8')
+.TP
+\fB\-\-reject\fR [n.n]
+Proportional length threshold to reject prediction (default '0.5')
+.TP
+\fB\-\-evalue\fR [n.n]
+Similarity e\-value cut\-off (default '1e\-09')
+.TP
+\fB\-\-incseq\fR
+Include FASTA input sequences in GFF3 output (default OFF)
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fe1fbb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+use_debian_dirs
diff --git a/debian/patches/use_debian_dirs b/debian/patches/use_debian_dirs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e476761
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/use_debian_dirs
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Description: Do not rely on path location relative to barrnap executable 
+--- a/bin/barrnap
++++ b/bin/barrnap
+@@ -14,9 +14,14 @@
+ my $AUTHOR = 'Torsten Seemann <torsten.seemann@monash.edu>';
+ my $URL = 'http://www.vicbioinformatics.com/';
+ my $DBDIR = "$FindBin::RealBin/../db";
++if ( ! -e $DBDIR) {
++  $DBDIR = "/usr/share/barrnap/db";
++}
+ my $OPSYS = $^O;
+ my $NHMMER = "$FindBin::RealBin/../binaries/$OPSYS/nhmmer";
+-
++if ( ! -e $NHMMER ) {
++  $NHMMER = "/usr/bin/nhmmer";
++}
+ my %KINGDOM = (map { substr($_,0,1) => $_ } qw(bac arc euk mito));
+ my %LENG = (
+   "5S_rRNA"  =>119, "16S_rRNA"=>1585, "23S_rRNA"=>3232,
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0e3f682
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+# -*- makefile -*-
+
+DH_VERBOSE=1
+DEBVERS := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -n -e 's/^Version: //p')
+VERSION := $(shell echo '$(DEBVERS)' | sed -e 's/^[[:digit:]]*://' -e 's/[~-].*//')
+OVERSION := $(shell echo '$(DEBVERS)' | sed -e 's/^[[:digit:]]*://' -e 's/[+].*//')
+
+%:
+	dh $@ --parallel
+
+override_dh_auto_build:
+	# pass
+
+override_dh_auto_install:
+	# pass 
+
+get-orig-source:
+	uscan --verbose --force-download --repack --compression xz --destdir=..
+	mv ../barrnap_$(OVERSION).orig.tar.xz ../barrnap_$(VERSION).orig.tar.xz 
+
diff --git a/debian/source/format b/debian/source/format
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..163aaf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/source/format
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.0 (quilt)
diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..16515b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/watch
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+version=3
+
+opts=filenamemangle=s/.+\/v?(\d\S*)\.tar\.gz/barrnap-$1.tar.gz/,dversionmangle=s/.dfsg// \
+  https://github.com/Victorian-Bioinformatics-Consortium/barrnap/tags .*/v?(\d\S*)\.tar\.gz