diff --git a/flaim/COPYRIGHT b/flaim/COPYRIGHT
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+FLAIM Database Engine
+Copyright (c) 1991-2006 Novell, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public
+License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+
+This program 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, contact Novell, Inc.
+
+To contact Novell about this file by physical or electronic mail,
+you may find current contact information at www.novell.com
+
+On a Debian system, a copy of the GNU GPL is installed in
+   /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
diff --git a/flaim/debian/compat b/flaim/debian/compat
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+4
diff --git a/flaim/debian/dirs b/flaim/debian/dirs
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+usr/bin
+usr/sbin
diff --git a/flaim/debian/docs b/flaim/debian/docs
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diff --git a/flaim/debian/rules b/flaim/debian/rules
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+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+# -*- makefile -*-
+# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
+# This file was originally written by Joey Hess and Craig Small.
+# As a special exception, when this file is copied by dh-make into a
+# dh-make output file, you may use that output file without restriction.
+# This special exception was added by Craig Small in version 0.37 of dh-make.
+
+# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
+#export DH_VERBOSE=1
+
+
+CFLAGS = -Wall -g
+
+ifneq (,$(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
+	CFLAGS += -O0
+else
+	CFLAGS += -O2
+endif
+
+configure: configure-stamp
+configure-stamp:
+	dh_testdir
+	touch configure-stamp
+
+build: build-stamp
+
+build-stamp: configure-stamp 
+	dh_testdir
+	$(MAKE)
+	touch build-stamp
+
+clean:
+	dh_testdir
+	dh_testroot
+	rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp
+
+	-$(MAKE) clean
+	dh_clean 
+
+install: build
+	dh_testdir
+	dh_testroot
+	dh_clean -k 
+	dh_installdirs
+
+	$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/libflaim
+
+
+binary-indep: build install
+# We have nothing to do by default.
+
+# Build architecture-dependent files here.
+binary-arch: build install
+	dh_testdir
+	dh_testroot
+	dh_installchangelogs 
+	dh_installdocs
+	dh_installexamples
+	dh_installman
+	dh_link
+	dh_strip
+	dh_compress
+	dh_fixperms
+	dh_installdeb
+	dh_shlibdeps
+	dh_gencontrol
+	dh_md5sums
+	dh_builddeb
+
+binary: binary-indep binary-arch
+.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install configure