diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 830511be4..e6f50d0ee 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ cmake (3.3.1-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Set the team mailing list as maintainer.
   * Add a stage1 build profile that disables building cmake-qt-gui.
     (Bug: #738161)
+  * Add autopkgtests which run the upstream testsuite against the system cmake.
 
  -- Felix Geyer <fgeyer@debian.org>  Sat, 22 Aug 2015 19:09:55 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/tests/control b/debian/tests/control
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..96931918e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/tests/control
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Tests: testsuite
+Restrictions: allow-stderr
+Depends: cmake, @builddeps@
+
+Tests: testsuite-ninja
+Restrictions: allow-stderr
+Depends: cmake, ninja-build, @builddeps@
diff --git a/debian/tests/testsuite b/debian/tests/testsuite
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..c82f75fa1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/tests/testsuite
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+SRCDIR="$(pwd)"
+
+cd $ADTTMP
+
+cmake -DCMake_TEST_EXTERNAL_CMAKE=/usr/bin $SRCDIR
+make VERBOSE=1
+CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE=1 make test ARGS="-E CTestTestUpload -E BootstrapTest"
diff --git a/debian/tests/testsuite-ninja b/debian/tests/testsuite-ninja
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..8672d54c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/tests/testsuite-ninja
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+SRCDIR="$(pwd)"
+
+cd $ADTTMP
+
+cmake -DCMake_TEST_EXTERNAL_CMAKE=/usr/bin -GNinja $SRCDIR
+ninja -v
+CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE=1 ctest -E CTestTestUpload -E BootstrapTest