diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 48339d7..083c52b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,3 +5,7 @@
 *.venv
 build
 dist
+debian/files
+debian/*.debhelper
+debian/*.substvars
+debian/logster/
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd3f22b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+logster (0.0.1) precise; urgency=low
+
+  * Initial Packaging
+
+ -- Kiall Mac Innes <kiall@hp.com>  Thu, 02 May 2013 13:44:23 +0100
diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..45a4fb7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/compat
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+8
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..911f191
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+Source: logster
+Section: python
+Priority: extra
+Maintainer: Kiall Mac Innes <kiall@managedit.ie>
+Build-Depends:
+    debhelper (>= 8.0.0),
+    python (>= 2.6)
+Build-Depends-Indep:
+    python-setuptools
+Standards-Version: 3.9.3
+XS-Python-Version: >= 2.6
+Homepage: https://github.com/etsy/logster
+
+Package: logster
+Architecture: all
+Depends:
+    logtail,
+    python-pkg-resources,
+    ${python:Depends},
+    ${misc:Depends}
+Provides:
+    ${python:Provides}
+Description: Logster - Generate metrics for Graphite and Ganglia
+ Logster parsees log files and generate metrics for Graphite
+ and Ganglia
diff --git a/debian/logster.dirs b/debian/logster.dirs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..921fdba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/logster.dirs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+var/log/logster
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/debian/pydist-overrides b/debian/pydist-overrides
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..607c494
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/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.
+#
+# Modified to make a template file for a multi-binary package with separated
+# build-arch and build-indep targets  by Bill Allombert 2001
+
+# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
+#export DH_VERBOSE=1
+
+# This has to be exported to make some magic below work.
+export DH_OPTIONS
+
+
+%:
+	dh $@ --with python2
diff --git a/debian/source/format b/debian/source/format
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..89ae9db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/source/format
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.0 (native)