diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 57a25e168..9bc821677 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -113,3 +113,16 @@ Description: host and network monitoring system - IDO for PostgreSQL
  .
  This package provides the IDO module for the PostgreSQL database.
 
+Package: icinga2-dbg
+Architecture: any
+Section: debug
+Priority: extra
+Depends: icinga2-bin (= ${binary:Version}),
+         ${misc:Depends}
+Description: host and network monitoring system - debug symbols
+ Icinga 2 is still in development and not ready for production use!
+ .
+ Better description to come.
+ .
+ This package provides debug symbols for Icinga 2.
+
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index ca12369a5..946ed4b99 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -42,4 +42,8 @@ override_dh_install:
 override_dh_installinit:
 	dh_installinit --name=icinga2
 
+.PHONY: override_dh_strip
+override_dh_strip:
+	dh_strip --dbg-package=icinga2-dbg
+
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