diff --git a/debian/.gitignore b/debian/.gitignore
index 437658053c..dc57b0b450 100644
--- a/debian/.gitignore
+++ b/debian/.gitignore
@@ -28,3 +28,4 @@
 /freeswitch-sounds*/
 /freeswitch-systemd/
 /freeswitch-sysvinit/
+/libfreeswitch*/
diff --git a/debian/bootstrap.sh b/debian/bootstrap.sh
index 4c40b7eaed..8e26928043 100755
--- a/debian/bootstrap.sh
+++ b/debian/bootstrap.sh
@@ -194,6 +194,16 @@ Description: Cross-Platform Scalable Multi-Protocol Soft Switch
  .
  This package contains the FreeSWITCH core.
 
+Package: libfreeswitch1
+Architecture: any
+Depends: \${shlibs:Depends}, \${perl:Depends}, \${misc:Depends}
+Recommends:
+Suggests: libfreeswitch1-dbg
+Description: Cross-Platform Scalable Multi-Protocol Soft Switch
+ $(debian_wrap "${fs_description}")
+ .
+ This package contains the FreeSWITCH core library.
+
 Package: freeswitch-meta-bare
 Architecture: any
 Depends: \${misc:Depends}, freeswitch (= \${binary:Version})
@@ -335,6 +345,16 @@ Description: debugging symbols for FreeSWITCH
  .
  This package contains debugging symbols for FreeSWITCH.
 
+Package: libfreeswitch1-dbg
+Section: debug
+Priority: extra
+Architecture: any
+Depends: \${misc:Depends}, libfreeswitch1 (= \${binary:Version})
+Description: debugging symbols for FreeSWITCH
+ $(debian_wrap "${fs_description}")
+ .
+ This package contains debugging symbols for libfreeswitch1.
+
 Package: freeswitch-dev
 Section: libdevel
 Architecture: any
diff --git a/debian/freeswitch.install b/debian/freeswitch.install
index 199329cdd3..d713fe0607 100644
--- a/debian/freeswitch.install
+++ b/debian/freeswitch.install
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 /usr/bin
-/usr/lib/libfreeswitch.so.*
 /usr/share/freeswitch/scripts
diff --git a/debian/libfreeswitch1.install b/debian/libfreeswitch1.install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..216259cdd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/libfreeswitch1.install
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/usr/lib/libfreeswitch.so.*