diff --git a/debian/patches/0001-fix-up-permissions-on-tmpfiles.patch b/debian/patches/0001-fix-up-permissions-on-tmpfiles.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..81ceb19b8bb7dbc05b821f15031c81d28a576f82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/0001-fix-up-permissions-on-tmpfiles.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
+Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 21:58:26 -0400
+Subject: fix up permissions on tmpfiles
+
+(cherry picked from commit 3f7230798c585c9246ef379d2564af3441f6870a)
+---
+ hddemux.conf | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/hddemux.conf b/hddemux.conf
+index e7caa67..2459555 100644
+--- a/hddemux.conf
++++ b/hddemux.conf
+@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
+ # tmpfiles.d(5) runtime directory for hddemux
+ d /run/hddemux 0751 root root - -
+-d /run/hddemux/workdir hddemux hddemux - -
++d /run/hddemux/workdir 0750 root hddemux - -
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..77d8986b77ac54771c21ce4e6ea410134d22187f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0001-fix-up-permissions-on-tmpfiles.patch