diff --git a/build_deb.sh b/build_deb.sh
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4b6374b065297bcbc3ed710fde3c5809be79147f
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+epoch=0
+pkgname=`awk '/Package:/ {print $2}' debian/control`
+version=`awk '/Version:/ {print $2}' debian/control`
+pkgdir=tmp/$pkgname/$epoch/$version
+bindir=$pkgdir/data/usr/bin
+
+pmlnk.pm --copy --target $pkgdir/data/usr/share/perl5 .
+mkdir $pkgdir/control
+cp debian/control $pkgdir/control
+echo '2.0' > $pkgdir/debian-binary
+
+mkdir -p $bindir
+cp textarchive/vlib001.pl textarchive/mp3tags.pl textarchive/oggtags.pl $bindir
+
+mkdeb.pl $pkgdir
+
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
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+Package: forge001-perl
+Version: 0.1-4
+Architecture: all
+Maintainer: Gerhard Gonter <ggonter@gmail.com>
+Original-Maintainer: Gerhard Gonter <ggonter@gmail.com>
+Installed-Size: 629
+Depends: perl, libgg-aix-pm-perl, libdigest-md5-file-perl
+Section: perl
+Priority: optional
+Homepage: tbd
+Description: Perl scripts and modules from the forge001 repo
+ TBD...