diff --git a/debian/extra b/debian/extra
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index 6d8d206..0000000
--- a/debian/extra
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
-   echo "usage: $1 deps|control plugin"
-   exit 1
-fi
-
-case $1 in
-  deps)
-    case $2 in
-      amrwbenc)
-        echo "libamrwb-dev | amrwb-dev"
-        ;;
-      faac)
-        echo "libfaac-dev"
-        ;;
-      mpeg2enc)
-        echo "libmjpegtools-dev | mjpegtools-dev"
-        ;;
-      *)
-        echo "ERROR invalid plugin: add your plugin to debian/extra"
-        exit 1
-        ;;
-    esac ;;
-
-  control)
-    case $2 in
-      amrwbenc)
-cat << EOF
-Package: @GST_PKGNAME@-amrwbenc
-Architecture: any
-Depends: \${shlibs:Depends}, \${misc:Depends}, @GST_LIB@
-XB-GStreamer-Version: \${gstreamer:Version}
-XB-GStreamer-Elements: \${gstreamer:Elements}
-XB-GStreamer-URI-Sources: \${gstreamer:URISources}
-XB-GStreamer-URI-Sinks: \${gstreamer:URISinks}
-XB-GStreamer-Encoders: \${gstreamer:Encoders}
-XB-GStreamer-Decoders: \${gstreamer:Decoders}
-Provides: \${gstreamer:Provides}
-Description: amrwb encoder plugin for GStreamer
- This GStreamer plugin uses amrwb to encode audio stream into an Adaptive
- Multi-Rate - Wideband (AMR-WB) speech codec compressed audio stream.
- .
-  amrwb Homepage: http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr
-
-EOF
-;;
-      faac)
-cat << EOF
-Package: @GST_PKGNAME@-faac
-Architecture: any
-Depends: \${shlibs:Depends}, \${misc:Depends}, @GST_LIB@
-Recommends: @GST_PKGNAME@-ffmpeg
-XB-GStreamer-Version: \${gstreamer:Version}
-XB-GStreamer-Elements: \${gstreamer:Elements}
-XB-GStreamer-URI-Sources: \${gstreamer:URISources}
-XB-GStreamer-URI-Sinks: \${gstreamer:URISinks}
-XB-GStreamer-Encoders: \${gstreamer:Encoders}
-XB-GStreamer-Decoders: \${gstreamer:Decoders}
-Provides: \${gstreamer:Provides}
-Description: FAAC plugin for GStreamer
- This GStreamer plugin uses FAAC to encode audio stream into a AAC
- compressed audio stream.  This is commonly known as the "mp4" format.
- .
-  FAAC Homepage: http://www.audiocoding.com/
-
-EOF
-;;
-      mpeg2enc)
-cat << EOF
-Package: @GST_PKGNAME@-mpeg2enc
-Architecture: any
-Depends: \${shlibs:Depends}, \${misc:Depends}, \${misc:Depends}, @GST_LIB@
-XB-GStreamer-Version: \${gstreamer:Version}
-XB-GStreamer-Elements: \${gstreamer:Elements}
-XB-GStreamer-URI-Sources: \${gstreamer:URISources}
-XB-GStreamer-URI-Sinks: \${gstreamer:URISinks}
-XB-GStreamer-Encoders: \${gstreamer:Encoders}
-XB-GStreamer-Decoders: \${gstreamer:Decoders}
-Provides: \${gstreamer:Provides}
-Description: MJPEG Tools plugin for GStreamer
- This GStreamer plugin uses MJPEG Tools to encode video stream into a MPEG-2
- compressed video stream.
- .
-  MJPEG Tools Homepage: http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/
-
-EOF
-;;
-      *)
-        echo "ERROR invalid plugin: add your plugin to debian/extra"
-        exit 1
-        ;;
-    esac ;;
-  *) echo "ERROR use deps or control" ;;
-esac
-
diff --git a/debian/gstreamer-faac.install b/debian/gstreamer-faac.install
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--- a/debian/gstreamer-faac.install
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-debian/tmp/usr/lib/*/gstreamer-@GST_ABI@/libgstfaac.so
diff --git a/debian/gstreamer-mpeg2enc.install b/debian/gstreamer-mpeg2enc.install
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index 4c1b2fc..0000000
--- a/debian/gstreamer-mpeg2enc.install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-debian/tmp/usr/lib/*/gstreamer-@GST_ABI@/libgstmpeg2enc.so
diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
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index 1b7b8ff..0000000
--- a/debian/watch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-version=3
-http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad/gst-plugins-bad-(1\.[\d\.]+)\.tar\.xz