diff --git a/debian.hardy/compat b/debian.hardy/compat
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+5
diff --git a/debian.hardy/control b/debian.hardy/control
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+Source: rql
+Section: python
+Priority: optional
+Maintainer: Logilab Packaging Team <contact@logilab.fr>
+Uploaders: Sylvain Thenault <sylvain.thenault@logilab.fr>, Ludovic Aubry <ludovic.aubry@logilab.fr>
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.37.1), python-all-dev (>=2.4), python-all (>=2.4), python-central (>= 0.5), libgecode-dev
+XS-Python-Version: >= 2.4
+Standards-Version: 3.8.0
+
+Package: python-rql
+Architecture: any
+XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
+Depends: ${python:Depends}, ${misc:depends}, ${shlibs:depends}, python-logilab-common (>= 0.35.3-1), python-constraint (>= 0.4.0-1), yapps2-runtime
+Provides: ${python:Provides}
+Description: relationship query language (RQL) utilities
+ A library providing the base utilities to handle RQL queries,
+ such as a parser, a type inferencer.
+
diff --git a/debian.hardy/rules b/debian.hardy/rules
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+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
+# GNU copyright 1997 to 1999 by Joey Hess.
+#
+# adapted by Logilab for automatic generation by debianize
+# (part of the devtools project, http://www.logilab.org/projects/devtools)
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2003-2008 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE).
+# http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
+
+# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
+#export DH_VERBOSE=1
+
+build: build-stamp
+build-stamp: 
+	dh_testdir
+	(for PYTHON in `pyversions -r`; do \
+	    $${PYTHON} setup.py build ; done )
+#	${MAKE} -C doc html
+	touch build-stamp
+clean: 
+	dh_testdir
+	dh_testroot
+	rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp
+	rm -rf build
+	find . -name "*.pyc" | xargs rm -f
+	rm -f changelog.gz
+	dh_clean
+
+install: build
+	dh_testdir
+	dh_testroot
+	dh_clean -k
+	dh_installdirs
+	(for PYTHON in `pyversions -r`; do \
+		$${PYTHON} setup.py install --no-compile --prefix=debian/python-rql/usr/ ; \
+	done)
+	# remove test directory (installed in in the doc directory)
+	rm -rf debian/python-rql/usr/lib/python*/site-packages/rql/test
+	# install tests
+	(cd test && find . -type f -not \( -name '*.pyc' \) -exec install -D --mode=644 {} ../debian/python-rql/usr/share/doc/python-rql/test/{} \;)
+
+# Build architecture-independent files here.
+binary-indep:
+
+# Build architecture-dependent files here.
+binary-arch: build install
+	dh_testdir 
+	dh_testroot 
+	dh_install -a
+	dh_pycentral -a 
+	gzip -9 -c ChangeLog > changelog.gz
+	dh_installchangelogs -a
+	dh_installexamples -a
+	dh_installdocs -a README TODO changelog.gz
+	dh_installman -a
+	dh_link -a
+	dh_compress -a -X.py -X.ini -X.xml -Xtest
+	dh_fixperms -a
+	dh_shlibdeps -a
+	dh_installdeb -a
+	dh_gencontrol -a 
+	dh_md5sums -a
+	dh_builddeb -a
+
+
+binary: binary-indep binary-arch
+.PHONY: build clean binary binary-indep binary-arch
+