diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 78358d76..f023d6e3 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+notmuch (0.24.2-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Drop notmuch-dbg, use notmuch-dbgsym if debug symbols are needed.
+
+ -- David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>  Thu, 06 Jul 2017 08:35:09 -0300
+
 notmuch (0.24.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * rebuild for unstable
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3811d825..4e1feba1 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -162,17 +162,3 @@ Description: thread-based email index, search and tagging (Mutt interface)
  a fresh Maildir containing its search results only. The second one is
  the ability to reconstruct threads on the fly starting from the
  current highlighted mail.
-
-Package: notmuch-dbg
-Architecture: any
-Section: debug
-Priority: extra
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libnotmuch5 (= ${binary:Version})
-Description: thread-based email index, search and tagging - debugging symbols
- Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging
- large collections of email messages in maildir or mh format. It uses
- the Xapian library to provide fast, full-text search with a very
- convenient search syntax.
- .
- This package contains the debugging symbols for libnotmuch and the
- notmuch binary. Most people will not need this package.
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index a915179b..1ac6498c 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -32,6 +32,3 @@ override_dh_auto_install:
 	dh_auto_install --sourcedirectory bindings/python
 	cd bindings/python && $(python3_all) setup.py install --install-layout=deb --root=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp
 	dh_auto_install --sourcedirectory bindings/ruby
-
-override_dh_strip:
-	dh_strip --dbg-package notmuch-dbg