diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 81bcb18..26f3218 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html
 Package: lzd
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
+Breaks: lzip (<< 1.15~)
+Provides: lzip-alternative
 Description: Educational, lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm
  Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe
  integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2.
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 76be7af..e3c3416 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@
 override_dh_auto_install:
 	dh_auto_install -- DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/lzd
 
+	# alternative handling
+	mv debian/lzd/usr/bin/lzd debian/lzd/usr/bin/lzip.educational-decompressor
+
+	ln -s /usr/bin/lzip.educational-decompressor debian/lzd/usr/bin/lzd
+
 override_dh_builddeb:
 	dh_builddeb -- -Zxz