diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 121b6820..32a8cfee 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ ostree (2016.15-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     The upstream build system now uses the intended permissions throughout.
     - Retain explicit chmod for *.js, which dh_fixperms assumes should
       not be executable.
+  * d/p/Fix-TAP-syntax-in-test-basic-user.sh-and-run-it.patch:
+    Run an additional test, which was previously installed but not run
 
  -- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Jan 2017 14:37:12 +0000
 
diff --git a/debian/patches/Fix-TAP-syntax-in-test-basic-user.sh-and-run-it.patch b/debian/patches/Fix-TAP-syntax-in-test-basic-user.sh-and-run-it.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c498f922
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/Fix-TAP-syntax-in-test-basic-user.sh-and-run-it.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
+Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:21:58 +0000
+Subject: Fix TAP syntax in test-basic-user.sh, and run it
+
+In its initial commit, Alexander Larsson wrote
+
+    This works standalone, but unfortunately it breaks in
+    gnome-desktop-testing-runner as /tmp doesn't support
+    xattrs, so it is not installed atm.
+
+but we now (a) use /var/tmp, and (b) explicitly skip the test if
+xattr support is unavailable. So it should be OK to run now.
+---
+ Makefile-tests.am        | 2 +-
+ tests/test-basic-user.sh | 3 ---
+ 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/Makefile-tests.am b/Makefile-tests.am
+index 1f9cad48..02668ed3 100644
+--- a/Makefile-tests.am
++++ b/Makefile-tests.am
+@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ dist_uninstalled_test_scripts = tests/test-symbols.sh
+ 
+ dist_test_scripts = \
+ 	tests/test-basic.sh \
++	tests/test-basic-user.sh \
+ 	tests/test-pull-subpath.sh \
+ 	tests/test-archivez.sh \
+ 	tests/test-remote-add.sh \
+@@ -118,7 +119,6 @@ dist_installed_test_data = tests/archive-test.sh \
+ 	tests/pull-test.sh \
+ 	tests/admin-test.sh \
+ 	tests/basic-test.sh \
+-	tests/test-basic-user.sh \
+ 	tests/corrupt-repo-ref.js \
+ 	tests/pre-endian-deltas-repo-big.tar.xz \
+ 	tests/pre-endian-deltas-repo-little.tar.xz \
+diff --git a/tests/test-basic-user.sh b/tests/test-basic-user.sh
+index 42e6a864..3e11545e 100755
+--- a/tests/test-basic-user.sh
++++ b/tests/test-basic-user.sh
+@@ -23,9 +23,6 @@ set -euo pipefail
+ 
+ skip_without_user_xattrs
+ 
+-echo "1..1"
+-
+ setup_test_repository "bare-user"
+-echo "ok setup"
+ 
+ . $(dirname $0)/basic-test.sh
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 0ab08635..bf0fb385 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+Fix-TAP-syntax-in-test-basic-user.sh-and-run-it.patch
 Sourced-test-snippets-remove-shebang-and-make-non-executa.patch
 Make-corrupt-repo-ref.js-executable.patch