diff --git a/base/watchdog/debian/dl_hook b/base/watchdog/debian/dl_hook
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..97309ce07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/watchdog/debian/dl_hook
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+LOCAL_DIR=$1
+PKGNAME=watchdog
+BASE_DIR=${STX_GIT_SRC_DIR}
+PKG_DIR=${BASE_DIR}/meta-lat/data/debian/${PKGNAME}
+META_DIR=${PKG_DIR}/metadata_patches
+SRC_DIR=${PKG_DIR}/sources
+BASE_URL=https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20200424T151944Z/pool/main/w/${PKGNAME}
+MAJOR_VER="5.16"
+REVISION="1"
+VER=${MAJOR_VER}-${REVISION}
+DSC_FILE=${PKGNAME}_${VER}.dsc
+dget -x ${BASE_URL}/${DSC_FILE}
+if [ $? != 0 ]; then
+	echo "Fail to download ${BASE_URL}/${DSC_FILE}"
+	exit -1
+fi
+cd ${LOCAL_DIR}
+for patch in $(ls ${META_DIR}/*.patch); do
+	patch -p1 < $patch || exit 1
+done
+cp ${SRC_DIR}/* .
diff --git a/base/watchdog/debian/meta_data.yaml b/base/watchdog/debian/meta_data.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d530e4fea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/base/watchdog/debian/meta_data.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+debver: 5.16-1
+dl_hook: dl_hook
+revision:
+  dist: $STX_DIST
+  PKG_GITREVCOUNT: true