diff --git a/openstack/python-novaclient/debian/deb_patches/0001-stx-add-wheel-support.patch b/openstack/python-novaclient/debian/deb_patches/0001-stx-add-wheel-support.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c8d2c30c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openstack/python-novaclient/debian/deb_patches/0001-stx-add-wheel-support.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+From 7052e77c581e01a9717ab5307291867a15ac349d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Charles Short <charles.short@windriver.com>
+Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:59:10 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Add wheel support
+
+Add python3-novaclient-wheel package.
+
+Signed-off-by: Charles Short <charles.short@windriver.com>
+---
+ debian/control | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
+ debian/rules   |  2 +-
+ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
+index 9f941ca3..1092bc00 100644
+--- a/debian/control
++++ b/debian/control
+@@ -96,3 +96,21 @@ Description: client library for OpenStack Compute API - 3.x
+  Compute (Nova) through the OpenStack Compute API.
+  .
+  This package provides the Python 3.x module.
++
++Package: python3-novaclient-wheel
++Architecture: all
++Depends:
++ python3-wheel,
++ ${misc:Depends},
++ ${python3:Depends},
++Description: client library for OpenStack Compute API - 3.x
++ OpenStack Compute, codenamed Nova, is a cloud computing fabric controller
++ designed to be modular and easy to extend and adapt. In addition to its
++ "native" OpenStack API, it also supports the Amazon EC2 API, and it supports
++ many different database backends (including SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL),
++ hypervisors (KVM, Xen), and user directory systems (LDAP, SQL).
++ .
++ Python novaclient library and nova CLI tool for interacting with OpenStack
++ Compute (Nova) through the OpenStack Compute API.
++ .
++ This package contains the Python3 Wheel.
+diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
+index c6e62433..e1f67507 100755
+--- a/debian/rules
++++ b/debian/rules
+@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ override_dh_auto_build:
+ 	echo "Do nothing..."
+ 
+ override_dh_auto_install:
+-	pkgos-dh_auto_install --no-py2
++	pkgos-dh_auto_install --no-py2 --wheel
+ 	install -D -m 0644 tools/nova.bash_completion $(CURDIR)/debian/python3-novaclient-doc/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/nova
+ 	rm -rf $(CURDIR)/debian/python-novaclient/usr/novaclient
+ 
+-- 
+2.30.2
+
diff --git a/openstack/python-novaclient/debian/deb_patches/series b/openstack/python-novaclient/debian/deb_patches/series
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5bd753c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openstack/python-novaclient/debian/deb_patches/series
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0001-stx-add-wheel-support.patch
diff --git a/openstack/python-novaclient/debian/meta_data.yaml b/openstack/python-novaclient/debian/meta_data.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fddfcfa7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openstack/python-novaclient/debian/meta_data.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+debname: python-novaclient
+debver: 2:17.2.1-3
+dl_path:
+    name: python-novaclient-debian-17.2.1-3.tar.gz
+    url: https://salsa.debian.org/openstack-team/clients/python-novaclient/-/archive/debian/17.2.1-3/python-novaclient-debian-17.2.1-3.tar.gz
+    md5sum: 14a3b8f4856737f1d36242c4c17b5c5f
+revision:
+    dist: $STX_DIST
+    PKG_GITREVCOUNT: true