diff --git a/debian/patches/automake-foreign.patch b/debian/patches/automake-foreign.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b00af1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/automake-foreign.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Description: automake must be 'foreign' if there is no README,...
+Author: IOhannes m zmölnig
+Last-Update: 2017-06-19
+---
+This patch header follows DEP-3: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/
+--- frei0r.orig/configure.ac
++++ frei0r/configure.ac
+@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
+ AC_INIT(frei0r-plugins, [1.5.0], [frei0r-devel@dyne.org])
+ AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
+ 
+-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
++AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
+ 
+ # Checks for programs.
+ AC_PROG_CXX
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 3c06b3e..216d7e8 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+automake-foreign.patch
 docs_DATA.patch