diff --git a/extra/make-deb.sh b/extra/make-deb.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+set -ex
+
+# Ensure we're always in the right directory.
+SCRIPT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "$0" )" && pwd )"
+cd $SCRIPT_DIR/..
+
+# Use the TRAVIS_BRANCH var if defined as travis vm
+# doesn't run the git symbolic-ref command.
+if [ -z "$TRAVIS_BRANCH" ]; then
+   BRANCH=$(git symbolic-ref --short -q HEAD)
+else
+   BRANCH=${TRAVIS_BRANCH}
+fi
+
+# this appends a datestring formatting specifically to be increasing
+# based on the last date of the commit in this branch to provide increasing
+# DCH version numbers for building debian packages for bintray.
+GITCOMMITDATE=$(git show -s --pretty="format:%ci")
+DATESTRING=$(date -d "$GITCOMMITDATE" -u +"%Y%m%d%H%M%SZ")
+
+if [ -z "$DEBFULLNAME" ]; then
+        export DEBFULLNAME=`git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%an`
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$DEBEMAIL" ]; then
+        export DEBEMAIL=`git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%ae`
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$DEBBRANCH" ]; then
+        export DEBBRANCH=`echo "${BRANCH}-${DATESTRING}" | sed 's/[\/\_]/-/g'`
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$DEBPKGVER" ]; then
+  export DEBPKGVER=`git log -n 1 --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit`
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$DCHOPTS" ]; then
+        export DCHOPTS="-l ${DEBBRANCH} -u low ${DEBPKGVER}"
+fi
+
+echo "DEBDIR:       $DEBDIR"
+echo "DEBFULLNAME:  $DEBFULLNAME"
+echo "DEBEMAIL:     $DEBEMAIL"
+echo "DEBBRANCH:    $DEBBRANCH"
+echo "DEBPKGVER:    $DEBPKGVER"
+echo "DCHOPTS:      $DCHOPTS"
+
+
+if [ -d packagebuild ]; then
+  rm -rf packagebuild
+fi
+mkdir packagebuild
+rsync -ar --exclude=packagebuild . packagebuild
+pushd packagebuild
+rm -rf node_modules
+npm install --production
+git log -n 1 --pretty=format:%h.%ai.%s > commitstring.txt
+dch ${DCHOPTS}
+debuild --no-lintian --no-tgz-check -us -uc
+popd
+if [ ! -d deb ]; then
+  mkdir deb
+fi
+
+cp -a *.deb deb/