diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
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+ruby-text-format (1.0.0-3) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Convert package to gem2deb format (Closes: #630816)
+ * Add myself to uploaders
+
+ -- Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org> Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:17:30 +0200
+
+libtext-format-ruby (1.0.0-2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Adapted debian/control, debian/rules, and remove debian/control.in to
+ drop the Uploaders rule.
+ * Moved the build-depend-indep on ruby-pkg-tools to the build-depends
+ for it is used in the clean target.
+ * Bumped standards version to 3.7.2; no changes required.
+ * Added myself to the Uploaders field.
+
+ -- Paul van Tilburg <paulvt@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:13:30 +0100
+
+libtext-format-ruby (1.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Initial upload (closes #358897).
+
+ -- Esteban Manchado Velázquez <zoso@debian.org> Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:56:24 +0000
+
diff --git a/debian/compat b/debian/compat
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+++ b/debian/compat
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+7
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
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+Source: ruby-text-format
+Section: ruby
+Priority: optional
+Maintainer: Debian Ruby Extras Maintainers <pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
+Uploaders: Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org>,
+ Esteban Manchado Velázquez <zoso@debian.org>,
+ Paul van Tilburg <paulvt@debian.org>
+DM-Upload-Allowed: yes
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), gem2deb (>= 0.2.3~)
+Standards-Version: 3.9.2
+Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/pkg-ruby-extras/ruby-text-format.git
+Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-ruby-extras/ruby-text-format.git;a=summary
+Homepage: http://rubyforge.org/projects/text-format
+XS-Ruby-Versions: all
+
+Package: ruby-text-format
+Architecture: all
+XB-Ruby-Versions: ${ruby:Versions}
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},
+ ${misc:Depends},
+ ruby | ruby-interpreter
+# Recommends: ruby-text-hyphen (=> 1.0.0~)
+Replaces: libtext-format-ruby (<< 1.0.0-3~), libtext-format-ruby-doc (<< 1.0.0-3~)
+Conflicts: libtext-format-ruby (<< 1.0.0-3~), libtext-format-ruby-doc (<< 1.0.0-3~)
+Provides: libtext-format-ruby, libtext-format-ruby-doc
+Description: Ruby library for text formatting
+ Text::Format is provides the ability to nicely format fixed-width
+ text with knowledge of the writable space (number of columns),
+ margins, and indentation settings. Text::Format can work with either
+ TeX::Hyphen or Text::Hyphen to hyphenate words when formatting.
+
+Package: libtext-format-ruby
+Section: oldlibs
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ruby-text-format
+Description: Transitional package for ruby-text-format
+ This is a transitional package to ease upgrades to the ruby-text-format
+ package. It can safely be removed.
+
+Package: libtext-format-ruby1.8
+Section: oldlibs
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ruby-text-format
+Description: Transitional package for ruby-text-format
+ This is a transitional package to ease upgrades to the ruby-text-format
+ package. It can safely be removed.
+
+Package: libtext-format-ruby-doc
+Section: oldlibs
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ruby-text-format
+Description: Transitional package for ruby-text-format
+ This is a transitional package to ease upgrades to the ruby-text-format
+ package. It can safely be removed.
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
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+++ b/debian/copyright
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+Format: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?op=file&rev=173
+Upstream-Name: text-format
+Upstream-Contact: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com>
+Source: https://rubyforge.org/projects/text-format/
+
+Files: *
+Copyright: Copyright 2002 - 2005 Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com>
+License: Ruby's license or Perl Artistic License
+ Ruby's license:
+ .
+ 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the
+ software without restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the
+ original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.
+ .
+ 2. You may modify your copy of the software in any way, provided that
+ you do at least ONE of the following:
+ .
+ a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise
+ make them Freely Available, such as by posting said
+ modifications to Usenet or an equivalent medium, or by allowing
+ the author to include your modifications in the software.
+ .
+ b) use the modified software only within your corporation or
+ organization.
+ .
+ c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict
+ with standard executables, which must also be provided.
+ .
+ d) make other distribution arrangements with the author.
+
+ 3. You may distribute the software in object code or executable
+ form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following:
+ .
+ a) distribute the executables and library files of the software,
+ together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent)
+ on where to get the original distribution.
+ .
+ b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of
+ the software.
+ .
+ c) give non-standard executables non-standard names, with
+ instructions on where to get the original software distribution.
+ .
+ d) make other distribution arrangements with the author.
+ .
+ 4. You may modify and include the part of the software into any other
+ software (possibly commercial). But some files in the distribution
+ are not written by the author, so that they are not under this terms.
+ .
+ They are gc.c(partly), utils.c(partly), regex.[ch], st.[ch] and some
+ files under the ./missing directory. See each file for the copying
+ condition.
+ .
+ 5. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as
+ output from the software do not automatically fall under the
+ copyright of the software, but belong to whomever generated them,
+ and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
+ software.
+ .
+ 6. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
+ IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
+ WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+ PURPOSE.
+
+
+Files: setup.rb
+Copyright: Copyright 2000-2004 Minero Aoki
+License: LGPL 2.1
+ This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
+ published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the
+ License.
+ .
+ This library 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
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ .
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
+ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+ 02110-1301 USA
+ .
+ On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ version 2.1 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1'.
+
+Files: debian/*
+Copyright: Copyright 2011 Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>
+License: WTFPL 2.0
+ This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to the
+ extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public
+ License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See
+ http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.
diff --git a/debian/ruby-test-files.yaml b/debian/ruby-test-files.yaml
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bde795ad943eb61534cbd900ac5c0040dc4083f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/ruby-test-files.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+---
+- tests/tc_text_format.rb
diff --git a/debian/ruby-text-format.docs b/debian/ruby-text-format.docs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a208fb640bb061bc0c874edccd73b1ef7c3032c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/ruby-text-format.docs
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+README
+ToDo
+
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a5e7dc88020660d744bbd6c9c811e09235b6b8b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/rules
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+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+#export DH_VERBOSE=1
+#
+# Uncomment to ignore all test failures (but the tests will run anyway)
+#export DH_RUBY_IGNORE_TESTS=all
+#
+# Uncomment to ignore some test failures (but the tests will run anyway).
+# Valid values:
+#export DH_RUBY_IGNORE_TESTS=ruby1.8 ruby1.9.1 require-rubygems
+#
+# If you need to specify the .gemspec (eg there is more than one)
+#export DH_RUBY_GEMSPEC=gem.gemspec
+
+%:
+ dh $@ --buildsystem=ruby --with ruby
diff --git a/debian/source/format b/debian/source/format
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..163aaf8d82b6c54f23c45f32895dbdfdcc27b047
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/source/format
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.0 (quilt)
diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6eec5f2ea150166df0505f049933f4fc9e488d6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/watch
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+version=3
+http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/gemwatch/text-format .*/text-format-(.*).tar.gz