diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3997b8d..9210de6 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -21,3 +21,11 @@
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, nginx (= ${binary:Version})
 Description: debug version of nginx
  Not stripped version of nginx built with the debugging log support.
+
+Package: nginx-dbg
+Architecture: any
+Section: debug
+Priority: extra
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, nginx (= ${binary:Version})
+Description: nginx debug symbols
+ This package contains the debugging symbols for nginx.
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index a0a9806..8fe9d76 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 override_dh_auto_configure: configure_debug
 
 override_dh_strip:
-	dh_strip -Xdebug
+	dh_strip -Xdebug --dbg-package=nginx-dbg
 
 override_dh_auto_build:
 	dh_auto_build