diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index c4a708d4c4..3dd9b1cb19 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ git-annex (7.20190731) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Fix intermittent failure of the test suite, where its repeated opening
     and writing to the sqlite database somehow caused inode cache information
     to occasionally be lost.
+  * Make git-annex-standalone.deb include the shell completions again.
 
  -- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>  Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:11:56 -0400
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 5146a81eb6..757422dab6 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ override_dh_auto_build:
 	make linuxstandalone GIT_ANNEX_PACKAGE_INSTALL=1
 
 override_dh_auto_install:
-	make install-desktop install-docs DESTDIR=debian/git-annex-standalone
+	make install-desktop install-docs install-completions \
+		DESTDIR=debian/git-annex-standalone
 	# bins are linked into place, as instructed in debian/install and debian/links
 
 override_dh_fixperms: