diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a9579e13..ba6daea4 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ wmaker (0.92.0+git-0) unstable; urgency=low
     + wmsetbg crashing on big png images. (Fixed by git
       2ccc8e4a79a3179454d82b9acc574135ea6369a4, switching from alloca to
       calloc - wrlib/png.c) Closes: #148370
+  * Provide detached debugging symbols in wmaker-dbg package.
 
  -- Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>  Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:56:00 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 1084d533..172ab2ec 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -87,3 +87,14 @@ Description: Window Maker's own widget set - runtime library
  the WindowMaker window manager.
  .
  This package contains the libWINGs runtime library.
+
+Package: wmaker-dbg
+Architecture: any
+Section: debug
+Priority: extra
+Depends: libwraster3 (= ${binary:Version}) | libwings2 (= ${binary:Version}) |
+ libwutil1 (= ${binary:Version}) | wmaker (= ${binary:Version}),
+ ${misc:Depends}
+Description: debugging symbols for WindowMaker packages
+ This package contains debugging symbols for Window Maker and its core
+ libraries (libWINGs, libWutils, libwraster).
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 54871c35..b59ad6d7 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ binary-arch: build
 	dh_installman -a
 	dh_installchangelogs -a ChangeLog
 	dh_link -a
-#	dh_strip -a
+	dh_strip -a --dbg-package=wmaker-dbg
 	dh_lintian
 	dh_compress -a
 	dh_fixperms -a