diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 80e52a5a8..fc20c9d59 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -484,3 +484,6 @@
 [submodule "main/thirdparty"]
 	path = main/thirdparty
 	url = https://system@scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/thirdparty
+[submodule "packaging"]
+	path = packaging
+	url = https://system@scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/tde-packaging
diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index fbad15441..5c5b4a79b 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ you can use the following procedure:
 
 ```
 git clone https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde
-git clone https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde-packaging
 cd tde
 git submodule init -- scripts
 git submodule update -- scripts
diff --git a/packaging b/packaging
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..6ace941e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packaging
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 6ace941e9bd7dffba427b47fc5ca9c0fde4ee0f8
diff --git a/submodules b/submodules
index 611d8406a..bb50583ba 100644
--- a/submodules
+++ b/submodules
@@ -455,3 +455,5 @@ main/tdewebdev
 main/tdewebdev/admin
 main/tdewebdev/cmake
 main/thirdparty
+
+packaging