diff --git a/debian/README.building b/debian/README.building
index 5033b33322658e7743e9154ec3a8c4c9751c5f3c..bce356f972a895497b2e2771128b3d877323a2cc 100644
--- a/debian/README.building
+++ b/debian/README.building
@@ -1,3 +1,35 @@
+As upstream maintainer, I
+
+* use git from the upstream repo
+	git clone ssh://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/git/asdf.git
+
+* checkout the release branch
+	git checkout release
+
+* do dark magic to create a release, merging with master,
+ renumbering the version, then:
+	git commit
+
+* do the releasing:
+	git tag 2.00x ; make archive-copy ; make website ;
+        git tag -f RELEASE ; make push
+
+* edit debian files, then:
+	git commit
+
+* create debian package:
+	make debian-package
+
+* if unsatisfied, edit debian files some more then
+	git commit --amend
+  then goto previous point.
+
+If ever debian diverges from upstream, you should adapt accordingly.
+
+The below notes are obsolete, but might give you ideas how to do it.
+
+------>8------>8------>8------>8------>8------>8------>8------>8------>8------
+
 To build this package you need to get the git repository:
 
 git clone git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-common-lisp/cl-asdf.git
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 9531117d7dd02892e64cdb8e0b43d8373605bb32..5f85c2209bdb5ae44f3758f670ffdd9349f2557f 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -28,14 +28,14 @@ binary-indep: build
 	dh_testdir -i
 	dh_testroot -i
 	dh_prep -i
-	chmod +x test/run-tests.sh 
+	chmod +x test/run-tests.sh
 	dh_installdirs -i
 	dh_install -i
 	#dh_lisp -i
 	dh_installdocs -i
 	dh_installinfo -i
 	dh_installexamples -i
-	dh_installchangelogs 
+	dh_installchangelogs
 	dh_link --verbose -i
 	dh_strip -i
 	dh_compress -i
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ binary-indep: build
 	dh_md5sums -i
 	dh_builddeb -i
 
-source diff:                                                                  
+source diff:
 	@echo >&2 'source and diff are obsolete - use dpkg-source -b'; false
 
 binary: binary-indep binary-arch
diff --git a/debian/source/format b/debian/source/format
index d3827e75a5cadb9fe4a27e1cb9b6d192e7323120..163aaf8d82b6c54f23c45f32895dbdfdcc27b047 100644
--- a/debian/source/format
+++ b/debian/source/format
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.0
+3.0 (quilt)
diff --git a/debian/updated-with-git-importcvs b/debian/updated-with-git-importcvs
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000