diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f21a568..fd1ee54 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -121,3 +121,30 @@ Description: daemon handling the MATE session settings (development files)
  This package contains the development files for building
  mate-settings-daemon plugins.
 
+Package: mate-settings-daemon-dbg
+Section: debug
+Priority: extra
+Architecture: any
+Depends: mate-settings-daemon (= ${binary:Version}),
+         ${misc:Depends},
+Description: daemon handling the MATE session settings (debugging symbols)
+ This package contains the daemon which is responsible for setting the
+ various parameters of a MATE session and the applications that run
+ under it. It handles the following kinds of settings:
+ .
+  * Keyboard: layout, accessibility options, shortcuts, media keys
+  * Clipboard management
+  * Theming: background, icons, GTK+ applications
+  * Cleanup of unused files
+  * Mouse: cursors, speed, accessibility options
+  * Startup of other daemons: screensaver, sound daemon
+  * Typing break
+ .
+ It also sets various application settings through X resources and
+ freedesktop.org XSETTINGS.
+ .
+ This package contains debugging symbols for the mate-settings-daemon
+ package.
+ .
+ The debugging symbols are installed in /usr/lib/debug and will
+ automatically be used by gdb.
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 3410a0c..5af279b 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ override_dh_auto_configure:
 override_dh_makeshlibs:
 
 override_dh_strip:
-	dh_strip --dbgsym-migration='mate-settings-daemon-dbg (<< 1.14.0-2~)'
+	dh_strip --dbg-package=mate-settings-daemon-dbg
 
 get-orig-source:
 	uscan --noconf --force-download --rename --download-current-version --destdir=..