diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 6599474f7..f42344fe2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     <artifactId>jdeb</artifactId>
     <packaging>maven-plugin</packaging>
     <name>jdeb</name>
-    <version>1.4</version>
+    <version>1.4.1</version>
     <description>
         This library provides an Ant task and a Maven plugin to create Debian packages from Java builds in a truly cross
         platform manner. Build your Debian packages on any platform that has Java support. Windows, Linux, OS X - it doesn't
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
                 <configuration>
                     <cloneProjectsTo>${project.build.directory}/it</cloneProjectsTo>
                     <localRepositoryPath>${project.build.directory}/local-repo</localRepositoryPath>
-                    <settingsFile>src/it/settings.xml</settingsFile>
+                    <!-- settingsFile>src/it/settings.xml</settingsFile -->
                     <goals>
                         <goal>clean</goal>
                         <goal>package</goal>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/vafer/jdeb/ControlBuilder.java b/src/main/java/org/vafer/jdeb/ControlBuilder.java
index 6e8d7a054..471357096 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/vafer/jdeb/ControlBuilder.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/vafer/jdeb/ControlBuilder.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package org.vafer.jdeb;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
@@ -103,13 +104,19 @@ void buildControl(BinaryPackageControlFile packageControlFile, File[] controlFil
             if ("conffiles".equals(file.getName())) {
                 foundConffiles = true;
             }
-            
             if (CONFIGURATION_FILENAMES.contains(file.getName()) || MAINTAINER_SCRIPTS.contains(file.getName())) {
                 FilteredFile configurationFile = new FilteredFile(new FileInputStream(file), resolver);
                 configurationFile.setOpenToken(openReplaceToken);
                 configurationFile.setCloseToken(closeReplaceToken);
                 addControlEntry(file.getName(), configurationFile.toString(), outputStream);
 
+            } else if (file.getName().endsWith(".bin")) {
+                InputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
+                ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+                Utils.copy(in, out);
+                in.close();
+                out.close();
+                addControlEntry(file.getName().substring(0, file.getName().length() - 4), out.toByteArray(), outputStream);
             } else if (!"control".equals(file.getName())) {
                 // initialize the information stream to guess the type of the file
                 InformationInputStream infoStream = new InformationInputStream(new FileInputStream(file));
@@ -209,23 +216,25 @@ public BinaryPackageControlFile createPackageControlFile(File file, BigInteger p
 
 
     private static void addControlEntry(final String pName, final String pContent, final TarArchiveOutputStream pOutput) throws IOException {
-        final byte[] data = pContent.getBytes("UTF-8");
+        addControlEntry(pName, pContent.getBytes("UTF-8"), pOutput);
+    }
 
+    private static void addControlEntry(final String pName, final byte[] pData, final TarArchiveOutputStream pOutput) throws IOException {
         final TarArchiveEntry entry = new TarArchiveEntry("./" + pName, true);
-        entry.setSize(data.length);
+        entry.setSize(pData.length);
         entry.setNames("root", "root");
-        
+
         if (MAINTAINER_SCRIPTS.contains(pName)) {
             entry.setMode(PermMapper.toMode("755"));
         } else {
             entry.setMode(PermMapper.toMode("644"));
         }
-        
+
         pOutput.putArchiveEntry(entry);
-        pOutput.write(data);
+        pOutput.write(pData);
         pOutput.closeArchiveEntry();
     }
-    
+
     /**
      * Tells if the specified directory is ignored by default (.svn, cvs, etc)
      *