diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 6baa518..a05ed04 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -15,3 +15,15 @@ Description: utilities for dealing with compressed files transparently
  Zutils is a collection of utilities for dealing with any combination of
  compressed and non-compressed files transparently. Currently the supported
  compressors are gzip, bzip2, lzip, and xz.
+
+Package: zutils-dbg
+Section: debug
+Priority: extra
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, zutils (= ${binary:Version})
+Description: utilities for dealing with compressed files transparently (debug)
+ Zutils is a collection of utilities for dealing with any combination of
+ compressed and non-compressed files transparently. Currently the supported
+ compressors are gzip, bzip2, lzip, and xz.
+ .
+ This package contains the debugging symbols.
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 98afb2e..8a653cb 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -7,7 +7,10 @@ override_dh_auto_configure:
 	LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -static" dh_auto_configure -- --exec-prefix=/
 
 override_dh_auto_install:
-	dh_auto_install
+	dh_auto_install -- DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/zutils
 
 	# removing unused files
 	rm -f debian/zutils/usr/share/info/dir*
+
+override_dh_strip:
+	dh_strip --dbg-package=zutils-dbg