diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2e798a8..105e904 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -23,8 +23,11 @@
          ${misc:Depends},
          libfuse2
 Description: simple Python interface to FUSE (Python 2)
- fusepy is a Python module that provides a simple interface to FUSE and 
+ fusepy is a Python module that provides a simple interface to FUSE and
  MacFUSE. It's just one file and is implemented using ctypes.
+ Due to a name clash with the existing API-incompatible python-fuse package,
+ the importable module name for fusepy in Debian is 'fusepy' instead of
+ upstream's 'fuse'.
  .
  This package installs the Python 2 version.
 
@@ -36,5 +39,8 @@
 Description: simple Python interface to FUSE (Python 3)
  fusepy is a Python module that provides a simple interface to FUSE and
  MacFUSE. It's just one file and is implemented using ctypes.
+ Due to a name clash with the existing API-incompatible python-fuse package,
+ the importable module name for fusepy in Debian is 'fusepy' instead of
+ upstream's 'fuse'.
  .
  This package installs the Python 3 version.
diff --git a/debian/patches/0001-rename-to-fusepy.patch b/debian/patches/0001-rename-to-fusepy.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e6b6f86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/0001-rename-to-fusepy.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From: Sascha Steinbiss <sascha@steinbiss.name>
+Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 14:13:38 +0100
+Subject: rename to 'fusepy'
+
+---
+ setup.py | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index 23d1664..a42f777 100755
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ setup(
+     maintainer = 'Terence Honles',
+     maintainer_email = 'terence@honles.com',
+     license = 'ISC',
+-    py_modules=['fuse'],
++    py_modules=['fusepy'],
+     url = 'http://github.com/terencehonles/fusepy',
+ 
+     classifiers = [
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7bcd7f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0001-rename-to-fusepy.patch
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index e2c8224..7e545da 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
 %:
 	dh $@ --with python2,python3 --buildsystem=pybuild
 
-override_dh_auto_test:
-	python2 setup.py test
-	python3 setup.py test
+override_dh_auto_clean:
+	rm -f fusepy.py
+
+override_dh_auto_build:
+	cp -pv fuse.py fusepy.py
+	dh_auto_build