diff --git a/coredns/Makefile b/coredns/Makefile
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+.PHONY: control
+
+# TARBALL=~/tmp/flutter-3.7.0-1.5.pre.tgz
+VERSION=1.10.1
+MINOR=7da2ceda
+BASENAME=coredns
+
+help:
+	@echo
+	@echo "make all     # to attempt to download, extract and build the .deb package using dpkg"
+	@echo
+
+all: download clean extract DEBIAN build
+
+# uses 'ar' to make a .deb file
+raw: download clean extract DEBIAN tar-ar
+
+clean:
+	rm -rf ../files
+	rm -f ../*.deb
+	rm -f ../*.tar.xz data.tar.xz
+	rm -rf DEBIAN
+
+download:
+	@echo
+	@echo CHECK FOR NEW VERSION via 'git tags'
+	@echo
+
+extract:
+	mkdir -p ../files/
+	mkdir -p ../files/usr/bin
+	mkdir -p ../files/usr/share/man/man1/ ../files/usr/share/man/man5/ ../files/usr/share/man/man7/
+	cp ~/go/src/github.com/coredns/coredns/coredns ../files/usr/bin
+	cp ~/go/src/github.com/coredns/coredns/man/*.1 ../files/usr/share/man/man1/
+	cp ~/go/src/github.com/coredns/coredns/man/*.5 ../files/usr/share/man/man5/
+	cp ~/go/src/github.com/coredns/coredns/man/*.7 ../files/usr/share/man/man7/
+
+# makes the DEBIAN/ directory
+DEBIAN:
+	mkdir -p DEBIAN
+	make md5sum
+	make control
+	cp postinst DEBIAN
+
+control:
+	mkdir -p DEBIAN
+	cp control DEBIAN/
+	echo Version: ${VERSION}.${MINOR} >>DEBIAN/control
+
+md5sum:
+	cd ../files/ && find -type f -exec md5sum '{}' \; |sort -k2 >../md5sums
+	mv ../md5sums DEBIAN/
+
+build:
+	mv DEBIAN ../files/
+	cd .. && dpkg-deb --build files ${BASENAME}_${VERSION}.${MINOR}_amd64.deb
+	cd .. && dpkg-deb --info ${BASENAME}_${VERSION}.${MINOR}_amd64.deb
+
+# how to make a debian package "raw" just using tar and ar
+#
+# READ THIS AGAIN:
+#
+# A .deb file is just output from 'ar rcs'
+#
+tar-ar: control
+	cd DEBIAN && tar --ignore-failed-read -cvJf ../control.tar.xz .
+	cd files && tar -cvJf ../data.tar.xz .
+	ar rcs ${BASENAME}_${VERSION}.${MINOR}_amd64.deb debian-binary control.tar.xz data.tar.xz
+	dpkg-deb --info ${BASENAME}_${VERSION}.${MINOR}_amd64.deb
diff --git a/coredns/changelog b/coredns/changelog
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+++ b/coredns/changelog
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+coredns (0-0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Package for Debian.
+
+ -- Miek Gieben <miek@coredns.io>  Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:52:00 +0000
diff --git a/coredns/compat b/coredns/compat
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+++ b/coredns/compat
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+10
diff --git a/coredns/control b/coredns/control
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+++ b/coredns/control
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+Source: coredns
+Maintainer: Miek Gieben <miek@coredns.io>
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), ca-certificates, curl, lsb-release, jq
+Package: coredns
+Architecture: any
+Description: DNS server that chains plugins
+Depends: adduser
diff --git a/coredns/coredns.manpages b/coredns/coredns.manpages
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+++ b/coredns/coredns.manpages
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+debian/man/coredns.1
+debian/man/corefile.5
+debian/man/coredns-*.7
diff --git a/coredns/postinst b/coredns/postinst
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+++ b/coredns/postinst
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+case "$1" in
+    configure)
+        if ! getent passwd coredns > /dev/null; then
+            adduser --system --disabled-password --disabled-login --home /var/lib/coredns \
+                    --quiet --force-badname --group coredns
+        fi
+        ;;
+esac
+
+#DEBHELPER#
+
+exit 0