diff --git a/packages/debian/control b/packages/debian/control
index 42e45cdbf..56254ec7d 100644
--- a/packages/debian/control
+++ b/packages/debian/control
@@ -90,3 +90,20 @@ Description: multi-user mailpile web server
  .
  This package configures Apache with "Multipile", a thin wrapper that allows
  system users to launch their Mailpile by logging in on the web interface.
+
+Package: mailpile-desktop
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${misc:Depends},
+         mailpile,
+         screen,
+         xterm,
+         python,
+         python-gui-o-matic,
+Description: GTK-based desktop integration for Mailpile
+ Mailpile is a modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and
+ privacy features. Mailpile places great emphasis on providing a clean, elegant
+ user interface and pleasant user experience. In particular, Mailpile aims to
+ make it easy and convenient to receive and send PGP encrypted or signed e-mail.
+ .
+ This package provides a minimal native GUI for starting and stopping Mailpile,
+ as well as receiving desktop notifications.
diff --git a/packages/debian/mailpile-desktop.install b/packages/debian/mailpile-desktop.install
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5b995f378
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/debian/mailpile-desktop.install
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+shared-data/mailpile-gui usr/share/mailpile
diff --git a/packages/debian/mailpile-desktop.links b/packages/debian/mailpile-desktop.links
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..74bdc247e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/debian/mailpile-desktop.links
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+usr/share/mailpile/mailpile-gui/mailpile-gui.py usr/bin/mailpile-gui.py
+usr/share/mailpile/mailpile-gui/mailpile.desktop usr/share/applications/mailpile.desktop
+usr/share/mailpile/mailpile-gui/media/logo-color-wb.png usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/mailpile.png