diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 1b20293131..6cd5f3c084 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ override_dh_gencontrol:
 override_dh_auto_install:
 	dh_auto_install
 	rm $(TMP)/etc/koha/README.txt
+	rm $(TMP)/etc/koha/SIPconfig.xml
 	rm -r $(TMP)/usr/share/koha/doc
 	rm -r $(TMP)/var/run
 	rm -r $(TMP)/var/lock
diff --git a/debian/templates/SIPconfig.xml b/debian/templates/SIPconfig.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..82bb187be7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/templates/SIPconfig.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+<acsconfig xmlns="http://openncip.org/acs-config/1.0/">
+<!-- above address gets nothing, it's just a namespace -->
+  <error-detect enabled="true" />
+
+<!--
+  Set Net::Server::PreFork runtime parameters
+  syslog_ident will identify SIP2 Koha server entries in syslog
+  For OpenSolaris, add: syslog_logsock=stream
+-->
+  <server-params
+    min_servers='1'
+    min_spare_servers='0'
+    log_file='Sys::Syslog'
+    syslog_ident='koha_sip'
+    syslog_facility='local6'
+  />
+
+  <listeners>
+<!-- vestigial HTTP, never implemented: just use the OPAC!
+	<service
+      port="0:8080/tcp"
+      transport="http"
+      protocol="NCIP/1.0" />
+-->
+    <service
+      port="8023/tcp"
+      transport="telnet"
+      protocol="SIP/2.00"
+      timeout="60" />
+
+    <service
+      port="127.0.0.1:6001/tcp"
+      transport="RAW"
+      protocol="SIP/2.00"
+      timeout="60" />
+  </listeners>
+
+  <accounts>
+      <login id="term1"  password="term1" delimiter="|" error-detect="enabled" institution="CPL" />
+      <login id="koha"   password="koha"  delimiter="|" error-detect="enabled" institution="kohalibrary" />
+      <login id="koha2"  password="koha" institution="kohalibrary2" />
+      <login id="lpl-sc" password="1234" institution="LPL" />
+      <login id="lpl-sc-beacock" password="xyzzy"
+             delimiter="|" error-detect="enabled" institution="LPL" />
+  </accounts>
+
+<!--
+Institution tags are for enabled branches.  There needs to be one
+institution stanza for each institution named in the accounts above.
+The implementation attribute is actually used to find the code to run,
+in our case "ILS".
+-->
+
+<institutions>
+    <institution id="MAIN" implementation="ILS" parms="">
+          <policy checkin="true" renewal="true" checkout="true"
+		  status_update="false" offline="false"
+		  timeout="100"
+		  retries="5" />
+    </institution>
+    <institution id="CPL" implementation="ILS" parms="">
+          <policy checkin="true" renewal="true" checkout="true"
+		  status_update="false" offline="false"
+		  timeout="25"
+		  retries="5" />
+    </institution>
+    <institution id="kohalibrary" implementation="ILS" parms="">
+          <policy checkin="true" renewal="false" checkout="true"
+		  status_update="false" offline="false"
+		  timeout="100"
+		  retries="5" />
+    </institution>
+    <institution id="kohalibrary2" implementation="ILS" parms="">
+          <policy checkin="true" renewal="false" checkout="true"
+		  timeout="100"
+		  retries="3" />
+    </institution>
+    <institution id="LPL" implementation="ILS">
+          <policy checkin="true" renewal="false" checkout="true"
+		  timeout="100"
+		  retries="5" />
+    </institution>
+</institutions>
+</acsconfig>