diff --git a/debian/patches/data-Make-appdata-validator-happy.patch b/debian/patches/data-Make-appdata-validator-happy.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..445cdf72dc34ea79f31ea0975991bc24d8dbd37c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/data-Make-appdata-validator-happy.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From: =?utf-8?q?Guido_G=C3=BCnther?= <agx@sigxcpu.org>
+Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 12:00:00 +0200
+Subject: data: Make appdata validator happy
+
+---
+ data/org.gnome.PrepaidManager.appdata.xml.in | 5 ++++-
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/data/org.gnome.PrepaidManager.appdata.xml.in b/data/org.gnome.PrepaidManager.appdata.xml.in
+index e6b5aa2..9c9e751 100644
+--- a/data/org.gnome.PrepaidManager.appdata.xml.in
++++ b/data/org.gnome.PrepaidManager.appdata.xml.in
+@@ -5,11 +5,14 @@
+     <project_license>GPL-3.0-or-later</project_license>
+     <name>Prepaid manager</name>
+     <description>
++      <p>
+       GNOME Prepaid-manager-applet is an applet for the GNOME Desktop that
+       allows you to check and top up the balance of GSM mobile prepaid SIM cards.
+-
++      </p>
++      <p>
+       It uses ModemManager to talk to the modem and mobile-broadband-provider-info
+       to determine the necessary USSD codes for your provider.
++      </p>
+     </description>
+     <url type="homepage">https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/projects/ppm/</url>
+     <updatecontact>agx@sigxcpu.org</updatecontact>
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 6b23f81ad0befb13c65a285c3955a4a2cf66cc7b..997b69ab721792a42c13575a8dfb9b98ca9ffb1a 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 Also-use-python3-when-not-running-via-wrapper.patch
+data-Make-appdata-validator-happy.patch