diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0d6b16df9..5e7d61604 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ cmake (3.5.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     - Fixes fltk_wrap_ui segmentation fault. (Closes: #809535)
   * Pass correct buildsystem to dh_auto_test, fixes FTBFS. (Closes: #818040)
   * Change Vcs-* and Homepage to https URLs.
+  * Migrate to dbgsym debug package.
 
  -- Felix Geyer <fgeyer@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:32:32 +0100
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 0fafd5580..f6b4ae5c7 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Maintainer: Debian CMake Team <pkg-cmake-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <lisandro@debian.org>,
            Felix Geyer <fgeyer@debian.org>,
            Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20141010~),
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20160114~),
                dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.14~),
                libarchive-dev (>= 2.8.0),
                libbz2-dev,
@@ -111,17 +111,3 @@ Description: extended documentation in various formats for CMake
  .
  This package provides additional documentation in various formats like HTML or
  plain text.
-
-Package: cmake-dbg
-Architecture: any
-Section: debug
-Priority: extra
-Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.17.5~)
-Depends: cmake (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
-Description: debugging symbols for CMake
- CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple
- platform and compiler independent configuration files. CMake generates native
- makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your
- choice.
- .
- This package provides CMake debugging symbols.
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 07b109f9d..158833976 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -65,7 +65,10 @@ override_dh_installdocs-indep:
 override_dh_sphinxdoc:
 	dh_sphinxdoc -pcmake-doc
 
+override_dh_strip:
+	dh_strip --dbgsym-migration='cmake-dbg (<< 3.5.0-1~)'
+
 %:
-	dh $@ --with=sphinxdoc --parallel --builddirectory=Build --dbg-package=cmake-dbg
+	dh $@ --with=sphinxdoc --parallel --builddirectory=Build
 
 .PHONY: override_dh_auto_configure override_dh_auto_clean