diff --git a/debian/patches/0006-Example-refresh-pattern-deb.patch b/debian/patches/0006-Example-refresh-pattern-deb.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..adb09467fcf05ab5242b00d368ece3b530ee5c2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/0006-Example-refresh-pattern-deb.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From: Andreas Hasenack <andreas@canonical.com>
+Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 22:33:19 -0400
+Subject: Add an example refresh pattern for .debs
+
+Author: Andreas Hasenack <andreas@canonical.com>
+Reviewed-By: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@debian.org>
+Last-Updated: 2020-08-10
+Forwarded: not-needed
+---
+ src/cf.data.pre | 6 ++++++
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/src/cf.data.pre b/src/cf.data.pre
+index ec40590..864f4cb 100644
+--- a/src/cf.data.pre
++++ b/src/cf.data.pre
+@@ -5987,6 +5987,12 @@ NOCOMMENT_START
+ refresh_pattern ^ftp:		1440	20%	10080
+ refresh_pattern ^gopher:	1440	0%	1440
+ refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0	0%	0
++refresh_pattern \/(Packages|Sources)(|\.bz2|\.gz|\.xz)$ 0 0% 0 refresh-ims
++refresh_pattern \/Release(|\.gpg)$ 0 0% 0 refresh-ims
++refresh_pattern \/InRelease$ 0 0% 0 refresh-ims
++refresh_pattern \/(Translation-.*)(|\.bz2|\.gz|\.xz)$ 0 0% 0 refresh-ims
++# example pattern for deb packages
++#refresh_pattern (\.deb|\.udeb)$   129600 100% 129600
+ refresh_pattern .		0	20%	4320
+ NOCOMMENT_END
+ DOC_END
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 656143640dfa88a002d8b361817cafb6bafb2c88..3875639fd3d8b751d8a5bf3eefb2c2b64b842d3c 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 0003-installed-binary-for-debian-ci.patch
 #0004-upstream-bug5041.patch
 0005-Use-RuntimeDirectory-to-create-run-squid.patch
+0006-Example-refresh-pattern-deb.patch