diff --git a/debian/README.building b/debian/README.building
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6b1ceeafa9a154bf859089d35f8b05794645c929
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/README.building
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+To build this package you need to get the git repository:
+
+git clone http://git.debian.org/git/pkg-common-lisp/cl-asdf.git
+
+Get the upstream branch too:
+
+cd cl-asdf
+git checkout -t -b upstream remotes/origin/upstream
+
+Then you need to setup the following remotes:
+
+git remote add upstream http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/asdf.git
+
+To update the package from upstream do:
+
+git checkout upstream
+git pull upstream master:upstream
+git whatchanged
+git tag upstream/<date>
+git checkout master
+git pull . upstream
+
+To build:
+
+git-buildpackage -uc -us
+
+please check your package with:
+
+lintian --verbose --info --display-info --md5sums *.changes
+
+Then commit any changes and either send me the diff or push this to somewhere were I can fetch it.
+ 
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c49e553e8e179c7c20a416d60fbf2efdad232385..f7177518b8e8b7dc7adb5cc556ecea9266e6ed92 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ cl-asdf (1:20090819-1) unstable; urgency=low
   * New upstream, New homepage and new upstream repository.
   * changed section to lisp
   * now using debhelper v7
+  * added debian/README.building
 
  -- Peter Van Eynde <pvaneynd@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:03:28 +0200