diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index e732739..f53385c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
       * disable autoheader (invoked automatically by autoreconf),
         necessary in order to use debhelper compat level v10 without
         overriding dh-autoreconf calls
+  * Use automatic dbgsym packages, drop -dbg
 
  -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <mafm@debian.org>  Sat, 29 Jul 2017 22:52:10 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 960f1a0..60cd8ee 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -33,21 +33,6 @@
  .
  This package contains the shared library.
 
-Package: libsdl2-mixer-dbg
-Section: debug
-Architecture: any
-Multi-Arch: same
-Priority: extra
-Depends: ${misc:Depends},
-         libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0 (= ${binary:Version})
-Description: Mixer library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 2, debugging
- SDL_mixer is a sample multi-channel audio mixer library.  It supports any
- number of simultaneously playing channels of 16 bit stereo audio, plus a single
- channel of music, mixed by the popular FLAC, modplug MOD, FluidSynth and
- Timidity MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, and MAD or SMPEG MP3 libraries.
- .
- This package contains the debugging information for the shared library.
-
 Package: libsdl2-mixer-dev
 Section: libdevel
 Architecture: any
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index b1c5a9e..b3f4b5f 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 
 
 %:
-	dh $@
+	dh $@ --dbgsym-migration=libsdl2-mixer-dbg
 
 override_dh_auto_configure:
 	dh_auto_configure -- $(confflags)
@@ -73,9 +73,5 @@
 override_dh_compress:
 	dh_compress -Xplaymus.c -Xplaywave.c
 
-
-override_dh_strip:
-	dh_strip --dbg-package=libsdl2-mixer-dbg
-
 override_dh_makeshlibs:
 	dh_makeshlibs -V"libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0 (>= $(SHLIBVER))"