diff --git a/debian/base-files.links b/debian/base-files.links
index 3166652..e65f025 100644
--- a/debian/base-files.links
+++ b/debian/base-files.links
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL-1.3 usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL
 usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-3   usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL
 usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3    usr/share/common-licenses/GPL
+etc/mendel_version                 etc/debian_version
+
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 96f86c6..65ddd12 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+base-files (9.9+mendel3) mendel-beaker; urgency=medium
+
+  * lsb-release: Add in additional LSB files to make 'lsb_release -a' happy.
+
+  -- AIY Projects <support-aiyprojects@google.com>  Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:37:00 -0800
+
 base-files (9.9+mendel2) mendel-beaker; urgency=medium
 
   * Cut for beaker release and normalization of version.
diff --git a/etc/lsb-release b/etc/lsb-release
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..521ddc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etc/lsb-release
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+DISTRIB_CODENAME=beaker
+DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Mendel GNU/Linux Beaker"
+DISTRIB_ID=Mendel
+DISTRIB_RELEASE=mendel-beaker
+