diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
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+pacman (0.9) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * increase game speed
+  * increase difficulty per level (longer panic mode, shorter hunting mode, shorter bonus fruit time)
+  * highscore list with possibility to encrypt the list (see pacman --help)
+
+ -- Ryan Fortner <ryankfortner@gmail.com>  Mon, 10 Jan 2022 07:19:41 -0500
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
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+Source: pacman
+Section: games
+Priority: optional
+Maintainer: Ryan Fortner <ryankfortner@gmail.com>
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), dh-autoreconf, libsdl2-dev, libsdl2-ttf-dev, libsdl2-image-dev, libsdl2-mixer-dev
+Standards-Version: 4.5.0
+Homepage: https://github.com/ryanfortner/pacman
+
+Package: pacman
+Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: foreign
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
+Description: Yet another pacman clone in C/C++ and SDL.
+ This is a clone of the original pacman by Namco.
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
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+Format: https://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5
+Upstream-Name: deb-packaging
+Source: https://github.com/ryanfortner/pacman
+
+Files: src/* data/* debian/*
+Copyright: 2022 Ryan Fortner <ryankfortner@gmail.com>
+License: GPL-3.0+
+
+License: GPL-3.0+
+ 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/rules b/debian/rules
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+++ b/debian/rules
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+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+# You must remove unused comment lines for the released package.
+#export DH_VERBOSE = 1
+#export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all
+#export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND  = -Wall -pedantic
+#export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -Wl,--as-needed
+
+%:
+	dh $@ --with autoreconf 
+
+override_dh_autoreconf:
+	dh_autoreconf -- ./autogen.sh
+#override_dh_install:
+#	dh_install --list-missing -X.la -X.pyc -X.pyo
diff --git a/debian/source/format b/debian/source/format
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+++ b/debian/source/format
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+3.0 (native)
diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
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+version=3