diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
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index 0000000..18b2516
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+golang-github-farsightsec-go-nmsg (0.0~git20190917.04d2174-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Initial release (Closes: #942812)
+
+ -- Sascha Steinbiss <satta@debian.org>  Mon, 21 Oct 2019 22:29:54 +0200
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+Source: golang-github-farsightsec-go-nmsg
+Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <team+pkg-go@tracker.debian.org>
+Uploaders:
+ Sascha Steinbiss <satta@debian.org>,
+Section: devel
+Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-go
+Priority: optional
+Build-Depends:
+ debhelper-compat (= 12),
+ dh-golang,
+Build-Depends-Indep:
+ golang-any,
+ golang-goprotobuf-dev,
+ golang-yaml.v2-dev,
+ golang-github-dnstap-golang-dnstap-dev
+Standards-Version: 4.4.0
+Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/golang-github-farsightsec-go-nmsg
+Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/golang-github-farsightsec-go-nmsg.git
+Homepage: https://github.com/farsightsec/go-nmsg
+Rules-Requires-Root: no
+XS-Go-Import-Path: github.com/farsightsec/go-nmsg
+
+Package: golang-github-farsightsec-go-nmsg-dev
+Architecture: all
+Depends:
+ ${misc:Depends},
+ golang-goprotobuf-dev,
+ golang-yaml.v2-dev,
+ golang-github-dnstap-golang-dnstap-dev
+Description: Golang implementation of the nmsg network message encapsulation library
+ go-nmsg is a pure go implementation of the NMSG container and payload format used by the
+ C nmsg toolkit and library.
+ It can pack and unpack the protobuf structure of an NMSG payload, and the protobuf
+ structure of the data contained in the payload. It does not implement the full
+ functionality of the C libnmsg message modules, such as:
+ .
+ - Advanced field types (e.g., a protobuf []byte as an IP address)
+ - Generated fields
+ - Formatting of fields for presentation and JSON output
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
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index 0000000..e736384
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
+Source: https://github.com/farsightsec/go-nmsg
+Upstream-Name: go-nmsg
+Files-Excluded:
+ Godeps/_workspace
+
+Files:
+ *
+Copyright:
+ 2019 Farsight Security, Inc.
+License: TODO
+
+Files:
+ debian/*
+Copyright:
+ 2019 Sascha Steinbiss <satta@debian.org>
+License: TODO
+Comment: Debian packaging is licensed under the same terms as upstream
+
+License: TODO
+ TODO
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/debian/gbp.conf b/debian/gbp.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cec628c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/gbp.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[DEFAULT]
+pristine-tar = True
diff --git a/debian/patches/disable-cgo-test.patch b/debian/patches/disable-cgo-test.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c7946e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/disable-cgo-test.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+--- a/container_test.go
++++ b/container_test.go
+@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
+ 
+ // These tests verify container compatibility between C libnmsg (wrapped in
+ // cgo-nmsg) and go-nmsg, both with and without compression.
+-
++/*
+ import (
+ 	"bytes"
+ 	"log"
+@@ -175,4 +175,4 @@
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	t.Error("payload mismatch")
+-}
++}*/
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
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index 0000000..524f8f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+disable-cgo-test.patch
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..c084839
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+
+export DH_GOLANG_EXCLUDES := cgo-nmsg container_test
+
+%:
+	dh $@ --builddirectory=_build --buildsystem=golang --with=golang
diff --git a/debian/source/format b/debian/source/format
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..163aaf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/source/format
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.0 (quilt)
diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b3a3456
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/watch
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+version=4
+opts=filenamemangle=s/.+\/v?(\d\S*)\.tar\.gz/golang-github-farsightsec-go-nmsg-\$1\.tar\.gz/,\
+uversionmangle=s/(\d)[_\.\-\+]?(RC|rc|pre|dev|beta|alpha)[.]?(\d*)$/\$1~\$2\$3/ \
+  https://github.com/farsightsec/go-nmsg/tags .*/v?(\d\S*)\.tar\.gz