diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index e3f79ac57..d32b3ae62 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Architecture: any
 Multi-Arch: foreign
 Depends:
  ncurses-term,
- notcurses-data (= ${binary:Version}),
+ notcurses-data (= ${source:Version}),
  ${misc:Depends},
  ${shlibs:Depends},
 Description: Binaries from libnotcurses
@@ -102,3 +102,16 @@ Description: Python wrappers for notcurses (Python 3)
  Python wrappers for the notcurses TUI library.
  .
  This package installs the library for Python 3.
+
+Package: python3-notcurses-dbg
+Section: debug
+Architecture: any
+Depends:
+ python3-notcurses (= ${binary:Version}),
+ ${misc:Depends},
+ ${python3:Depends},
+Recommends: python3-dbg
+Description: Python wrappers for notcurses (Python 3 debug)
+ Python wrappers for the notcurses TUI library.
+ .
+ This package installs the debug library for Python 3.