diff --git a/debian/patches/bts594549-pager-segfault.dpatch b/debian/patches/bts594549-pager-segfault.dpatch
--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#! /bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run
+## bts594549-pager-segfault.dpatch by Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>
+##
+## DP: Fix segfault when starting tig in pager mode.
+## DP:
+## DP: (Upstream commit 5355b6ed446a22714d944c316f3c037348f67d76)
+
+@DPATCH@
+
+diff a/tig.c b/tig.c
+--- a/tig.c
++++ b/tig.c
+@@ -2308,7 +2308,7 @@
+ VIEW_(BLAME, "blame", &blame_ops, TRUE, ref_commit),
+ VIEW_(BRANCH, "branch", &branch_ops, TRUE, ref_head),
+ VIEW_(HELP, "help", &help_ops, FALSE, ""),
+- VIEW_(PAGER, "pager", &pager_ops, FALSE, "stdin"),
++ VIEW_(PAGER, "pager", &pager_ops, FALSE, ""),
+ VIEW_(STATUS, "status", &status_ops, TRUE, ""),
+ VIEW_(STAGE, "stage", &stage_ops, TRUE, ""),
+ };
+@@ -3700,6 +3700,13 @@
+ break;
+
+ case REQ_VIEW_PAGER:
++ if (view == NULL) {
++ if (!io_open(&VIEW(REQ_VIEW_PAGER)->io, ""))
++ die("Failed to open stdin");
++ open_view(view, request, OPEN_PREPARED);
++ break;
++ }
++
+ if (!VIEW(REQ_VIEW_PAGER)->pipe && !VIEW(REQ_VIEW_PAGER)->lines) {
+ report("No pager content, press %s to run command from prompt",
+ get_key(view->keymap, REQ_PROMPT));
+@@ -7729,10 +7736,8 @@
+ const char **filter_argv = NULL;
+ int i;
+
+- if (!isatty(STDIN_FILENO)) {
+- io_open(&VIEW(REQ_VIEW_PAGER)->io, "");
++ if (!isatty(STDIN_FILENO))
+ return REQ_VIEW_PAGER;
+- }
+
+ if (argc <= 1)
+ return REQ_VIEW_MAIN;