diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7ae66aa22..af856cfb8 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -50,3 +50,16 @@ Description: low-level Git library
  libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git
  distributed version control system core methods provided as a
  re-entrant link-able library with a solid API.
+
+Package: libgit2-fixtures
+Architecture: all
+Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},
+         ${misc:Depends}
+Description: low-level Git library - test suite examples
+ libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git
+ distributed version control system core methods provided as a
+ re-entrant link-able library with a solid API.
+ .
+ This package provides the test examples of the library, which can be useful for
+ other pieces of software relying on libgit2, for testing purposes.
diff --git a/debian/libgit2-fixtures.install b/debian/libgit2-fixtures.install
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..beb2b41a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/libgit2-fixtures.install
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+tests/resources/* /usr/share/libgit2/fixtures/