diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d7d5390d..61aef064 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Some Linux distro packages are available:
   - [sftpgo-bin](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sftpgo-bin/). This package follows stable releases downloading the prebuilt linux binary from GitHub. It does not require `git`, `gcc` and `go` to build.
   - [sftpgo-git](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sftpgo-git/). This package builds and installs the latest git master. It requires `git`, `gcc` and `go` to build.
 - Deb and RPM packages are built after each commit and for each release.
-- An Ubuntu PPA is available [here](https://launchpad.net/~sftpgo/+archive/ubuntu/sftpgo).
+- For Ubuntu a PPA is available [here](https://launchpad.net/~sftpgo/+archive/ubuntu/sftpgo).
 
 You can easily test new features selecting a commit from the [Actions](https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo/actions) page and downloading the matching build artifacts for Linux, macOS or Windows. GitHub stores artifacts for 90 days.
 
diff --git a/pkgs/debian/changelog b/pkgs/debian/changelog
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..452b43cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/debian/changelog
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+sftpgo (1.0.1-dev.105-1ppa1) bionic; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream release.
+
+ -- Nicola Murino <nicola.murino@gmail.com>  Thu, 08 Oct 2020 16:36:55 +0200
+
+sftpgo (1.0.1-dev.102-1ppa1) bionic; urgency=medium
+
+  * Initial release
+
+ -- Nicola Murino <nicola.murino@gmail.com>  Thu, 08 Oct 2020 13:15:04 +0200
diff --git a/pkgs/debian/compat b/pkgs/debian/compat
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f599e28b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/debian/compat
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+10
diff --git a/pkgs/debian/control b/pkgs/debian/control
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fff1ee6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/debian/control
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Source: sftpgo
+Section: net 
+Priority: optional
+Maintainer: Nicola Murino <nicola.murino@gmail.com>
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10)
+Standards-Version: 4.1.2
+Homepage: https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo 
+Vcs-Git: https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo.git 
+
+Package: sftpgo
+Architecture: amd64 
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Recommends: bash-completion, python3-requests, python3-pygments
+Description: Fully featured and highly configurable SFTP server
+ SFTPGo has optional FTP/S and WebDAV support.
+ It can serve local filesystem, S3 (Compatible) Object Storages
+ and Google Cloud Storage
diff --git a/pkgs/debian/copyright b/pkgs/debian/copyright
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6aec9f68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/debian/copyright
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
+Upstream-Name: SFTPGo 
+Source: https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo/releases 
+
+Files: *
+Copyright: 2019-2020 Nicola Murino <nicola.murino@gmail.com>
+License: GPL-3 
+
+License: GPL-3
+ On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
+ version 3 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-
diff --git a/pkgs/debian/patches/config.diff b/pkgs/debian/patches/config.diff
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7742a790
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/debian/patches/config.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+Index: sftpgo/sftpgo.json
+===================================================================
+--- sftpgo.orig/sftpgo.json
++++ sftpgo/sftpgo.json
+@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
+   },
+   "data_provider": {
+     "driver": "sqlite",
+-    "name": "sftpgo.db",
++    "name": "/var/lib/sftpgo/sftpgo.db",
+     "host": "",
+     "port": 5432,
+     "username": "",
+@@ -80,14 +80,14 @@
+     "manage_users": 1,
+     "track_quota": 2,
+     "pool_size": 0,
+-    "users_base_dir": "",
++    "users_base_dir": "/var/lib/sftpgo/users",
+     "actions": {
+       "execute_on": [],
+       "hook": ""
+     },
+     "external_auth_hook": "",
+     "external_auth_scope": 0,
+-    "credentials_path": "credentials",
++    "credentials_path": "/var/lib/sftpgo/credentials",
+     "pre_login_hook": "",
+     "post_login_hook": "",
+     "post_login_scope": 0,
+@@ -105,9 +105,9 @@
+   "httpd": {
+     "bind_port": 8080,
+     "bind_address": "127.0.0.1",
+-    "templates_path": "templates",
+-    "static_files_path": "static",
+-    "backups_path": "backups",
++    "templates_path": "/usr/share/sftpgo/templates",
++    "static_files_path": "/usr/share/sftpgo/static",
++    "backups_path": "/var/lib/sftpgo/backups",
+     "auth_user_file": "",
+     "certificate_file": "",
+     "certificate_key_file": ""
diff --git a/pkgs/debian/patches/series b/pkgs/debian/patches/series
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8d319f27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/debian/patches/series
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+config.diff
diff --git a/pkgs/debian/postinst b/pkgs/debian/postinst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..da19af71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/debian/postinst
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then
+  # Add user and group
+  if ! getent group sftpgo >/dev/null; then
+    groupadd --system sftpgo
+  fi
+  if ! getent passwd sftpgo >/dev/null; then
+    useradd --system \
+      --gid sftpgo \
+      --no-create-home \
+      --home-dir /var/lib/sftpgo \
+      --shell /usr/sbin/nologin \
+      --comment "SFTPGo user" \
+      sftpgo
+  fi
+
+  if [ -z "$2" ]; then
+    # initialize data provider
+    sftpgo initprovider -c /etc/sftpgo
+    # ensure files and folders have the appropriate permissions
+    chown -R sftpgo:sftpgo /etc/sftpgo /var/lib/sftpgo
+    chmod 750 /etc/sftpgo /var/lib/sftpgo
+    chmod 640 /etc/sftpgo/sftpgo.json
+    echo "Please be sure to have the python3-requests package installed if you want to use the REST API CLI"
+  fi
+fi
+
+if [ "$1" = "configure" ] || [ "$1" = "abort-upgrade" ] || [ "$1" = "abort-deconfigure" ] || [ "$1" = "abort-remove" ] ; then
+  # This will only remove masks created by d-s-h on package removal.
+  deb-systemd-helper unmask sftpgo.service >/dev/null || true
+
+  # was-enabled defaults to true, so new installations run enable.
+  if deb-systemd-helper --quiet was-enabled sftpgo.service; then
+    # Enables the unit on first installation, creates new
+    # symlinks on upgrades if the unit file has changed.
+    deb-systemd-helper enable sftpgo.service >/dev/null || true
+    deb-systemd-invoke start sftpgo.service >/dev/null || true
+  else
+    # Update the statefile to add new symlinks (if any), which need to be
+    # cleaned up on purge. Also remove old symlinks.
+    deb-systemd-helper update-state sftpgo.service >/dev/null || true
+  fi
+
+  # Restart only if it was already started
+  if [ -d /run/systemd/system ]; then
+    systemctl --system daemon-reload >/dev/null || true
+    if [ -n "$2" ]; then
+      deb-systemd-invoke try-restart sftpgo.service >/dev/null || true
+    fi
+  fi
+fi
diff --git a/pkgs/debian/postrm b/pkgs/debian/postrm
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..41558184
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/debian/postrm
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+if [ -d /run/systemd/system ]; then
+  systemctl --system daemon-reload >/dev/null || true
+fi
+
+if [ "$1" = "remove" ]; then
+  if [ -x "/usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper" ]; then
+    deb-systemd-helper mask sftpgo.service >/dev/null || true
+  fi
+fi
+
+if [ "$1" = "purge" ]; then
+  if [ -x "/usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper" ]; then
+    deb-systemd-helper purge sftpgo.service >/dev/null || true
+    deb-systemd-helper unmask sftpgo.service >/dev/null || true
+  fi
+fi
diff --git a/pkgs/debian/prerm b/pkgs/debian/prerm
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a60145f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/debian/prerm
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+if [ -d /run/systemd/system ] && [ "$1" = remove ]; then
+  deb-systemd-invoke stop sftpgo.service >/dev/null || true
+fi
diff --git a/pkgs/debian/rules b/pkgs/debian/rules
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..12b6d47d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/debian/rules
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+# See debhelper(7) (uncomment to enable)
+# output every command that modifies files on the build system.
+export DH_VERBOSE = 1
+
+%:
+	dh $@
diff --git a/pkgs/debian/sftpgo-docs.docs b/pkgs/debian/sftpgo-docs.docs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/pkgs/debian/sftpgo.dirs b/pkgs/debian/sftpgo.dirs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c9cf0829
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/debian/sftpgo.dirs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/var/lib/sftpgo
diff --git a/pkgs/debian/sftpgo.install b/pkgs/debian/sftpgo.install
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9aeeaf77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/debian/sftpgo.install
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+sftpgo usr/bin
+examples/rest-api-cli/sftpgo_api_cli usr/bin
+sftpgo.json etc/sftpgo
+init/sftpgo.service lib/systemd/system
+bash_completion/sftpgo usr/share/bash-completion/completions
+man/man1/* usr/share/man/man1
+templates usr/share/sftpgo
+static usr/share/sftpgo
diff --git a/pkgs/debian/source/format b/pkgs/debian/source/format
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..163aaf8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/debian/source/format
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.0 (quilt)