diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
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+gt-tool (1.0.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * Experimental release.
+
+ -- Robert Garrett <robertgarrett404@gmail.com>  Sun, 1 Jun 2025 16:05:00 -0500
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
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+Source: gt-tool
+Maintainer: Robert Garrett <robertgarrett404@gmail.com>
+Section: misc
+Priority: optional
+Standards-Version: 4.6.2
+Build-Depends:
+ debhelper-compat (= 13),
+ dh-cargo,
+ librust-clap-dev,
+ librust-reqwest-dev,
+ librust-tokio-dev,
+ librust-serde-dev,
+Homepage: https://git.gelvin.dev/robert/gt-tool
+Vcs-Git: https://git.gelvin.dev/robert/gt-tool
+Vcs-Browser: https://git.gelvin.dev/robert/gt-tool
+Rules-Requires-Root: no
+
+Package: gt-tool
+Architecture: any
+Depends:
+ ${misc:Depends},
+ ${shlibs:Depends},
+Description: CLI tools for interacting with the Gitea API.
+ Use interactively to talk to your Gitea instance, or automatically via a CI/CD
+ pipeline. Currently supports:
+ .
+  - showing the Releases for a project
+  - creating a new Release for a project
+  - attaching files to a release
+
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: gt-tools
+Upstream-Contact: Robert Garrett <robertgarrett404@gmail.com>
+Source: https://source.mnt.re/reform/mnt-reform-setup-wizard
+
+Files: *
+Copyright: 2025 Robert Garrett <robertgarrett404@gmail.com>
+License: GPL-3+
+
+Files: debian/*
+Copyright: 2025 Robert Garrett <robertgarrett404@gmail.com>
+License: GPL-3+
+
+Files: debian/rules
+Copyright:
+ Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org>
+ 2025 Robert Garrett <robertgarrett404@gmail.com>
+License: GPL-3+
+Comment:
+ The debian/rules file is liften directly from the tuigreet package. It was
+ linked in the Debian Rust Team Book as a pretty simple example package. The
+ only change I've made is to remove the documentation generation target.
+ .
+ https://salsa.debian.org/debian/tuigreet/-/blob/master/debian/rules?ref_type=heads
+
+
+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.
+ .
+ It 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 it.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ .
+ On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License version 3
+ can be found in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.
+
diff --git a/debian/gbp.conf b/debian/gbp.conf
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+[DEFAULT]
+compression = xz
+compression-level = 9
+upstream-tag = v%(version)s
+debian-branch = deb
+
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
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+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+
+export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all
+DPKG_EXPORT_BUILDFLAGS = 1
+include /usr/share/dpkg/default.mk
+include /usr/share/rustc/architecture.mk
+export DEB_HOST_RUST_TYPE
+export PATH:=/usr/share/cargo/bin:$(PATH)
+export CARGO=/usr/share/cargo/bin/cargo
+export CARGO_HOME=$(CURDIR)/debian/cargo_home
+export CARGO_REGISTRY=$(CURDIR)/debian/cargo_registry
+export DEB_CARGO_CRATE=$(DEB_SOURCE)_$(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM)
+
+%:
+	dh $@ --buildsystem=cargo
+
+execute_after_dh_auto_clean:
+	$(CARGO) clean
+	rm -rf $(CARGO_HOME)
+	rm -rf $(CARGO_REGISTRY)
+	rm -f debian/cargo-checksum.json
+
+execute_before_dh_auto_configure:
+	$(CARGO) prepare-debian $(CARGO_REGISTRY) --link-from-system
+	rm -f Cargo.lock
+	touch debian/cargo-checksum.json
diff --git a/debian/source/format b/debian/source/format
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+3.0 (quilt)
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