diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..599d0a99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+libkiwix (0.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Initial release
+
+ -- Kunal Mehta <legoktm@debian.org>  Wed, 08 Jul 2020 18:12:32 -0700
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..79a8dc12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+Source: libkiwix
+Priority: optional
+Maintainer: Kiwix team <kiwix@kiwix.org>
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12),
+ meson,
+ pkg-config,
+ libzim-dev (>= 6.0.0),
+ libcurl4-gnutls-dev,
+ libicu-dev,
+ libgtest-dev,
+ libkainjow-mustache-dev,
+ liblzma-dev,
+ libmicrohttpd-dev,
+ libpugixml-dev,
+ zlib1g-dev
+Standards-Version: 4.5.0
+Section: libs
+Homepage: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-lib
+Rules-Requires-Root: no
+
+Package: libkiwix-dev
+Section: libdevel
+Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: same
+Depends: libkiwix9 (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}, python3, aria2,
+ libzim-dev (>= 6.0.0),
+ libicu-dev,
+ libpugixml-dev,
+ libcurl4-gnutls-dev
+Description: library of common code for Kiwix (development)
+ Kiwix is an offline Wikipedia reader. libkiwix provides the
+ software core for Kiwix, and contains the code shared by all
+ Kiwix ports (Windows, Linux, OSX, Android, etc.).
+ .
+ This package contains development files.
+
+Package: libkiwix9
+Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: same
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Conflicts: libkiwix0, libkiwix3
+Description: library of common code for Kiwix
+ Kiwix is an offline Wikipedia reader. libkiwix provides the
+ software core for Kiwix, and contains the code shared by all
+ Kiwix ports (Windows, Linux, OSX, Android, etc.).
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ff463664
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+See COPYING in the repository root.
diff --git a/debian/kiwix-compile-resources.1 b/debian/kiwix-compile-resources.1
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1b6dec9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/kiwix-compile-resources.1
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+.TH KIWIX-COMPILE-RESOURCES "1" "August 2017" "Kiwix" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+kiwix-compile-resources \- helper to compile and generate some Kiwix resources
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+\fBkiwix\-compile\-resources\fR [\-h] [\-\-cxxfile CXXFILE] [\-\-hfile HFILE] resource_file\fR
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.TP
+resource_file
+The list of resources to compile.
+.TP
+\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
+show a help message and exit
+.TP
+\fB\-\-cxxfile\fR CXXFILE
+The Cpp file name to generate
+.TP
+\fB\-\-hfile\fR HFILE
+The h file name to generate
+.SH AUTHOR
+Matthieu Gautier <mgautier@kymeria.fr>
diff --git a/debian/libkiwix-dev.install b/debian/libkiwix-dev.install
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..47cf7e42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/libkiwix-dev.install
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+usr/include
+usr/lib/*/libkiwix.so
+usr/lib/*/pkgconfig
+usr/bin
diff --git a/debian/libkiwix-dev.manpages b/debian/libkiwix-dev.manpages
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..02826e61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/libkiwix-dev.manpages
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+debian/kiwix-compile-resources.1
diff --git a/debian/libkiwix9.install b/debian/libkiwix9.install
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..af651ca9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/libkiwix9.install
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+usr/lib/*/libkiwix.so.*
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..74cc648b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all
+
+%:
+	dh $@ --buildsystem=meson
diff --git a/debian/source/format b/debian/source/format
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..89ae9db8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/source/format
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.0 (native)