diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 0ca4cfdd..e2d9e2da 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ ifneq (,$(filter parallel=%,$(subst $(COMMA), ,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))))
 endif
 
 VENDOR=$(shell lsb_release -is)
+DH_VERSION := $(shell dpkg -s debhelper | grep '^Version' | awk '{print $$2}')
 
 DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH  ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)
 DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE   ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
@@ -501,9 +502,12 @@ override_dh_installman:
 override_dh_strip:
 	: # running out of diskspace on the buildds
 	find $(TARGET_BUILD) -name '*.o' -o -name '*.a' | xargs -r rm -f
+ifeq (0, $(strip $(shell dpkg --compare-versions $(DH_VERSION) ge 9.20160114; echo $$?)))
+	: # If we don't have the right version of debhelper, don't run the option
 	dh_strip -p libclang$(SONAME_EXT)-$(LLVM_VERSION) --dbgsym-migration='libclang$(SONAME_EXT)-$(LLVM_VERSION)-dbg (<< 1:6.0-2~)'
 	dh_strip -p libllvm$(LLVM_VERSION) --dbgsym-migration='libllvm$(LLVM_VERSION)-dbg (<< 1:6.0-2~)'
 	dh_strip -p liblldb-$(LLVM_VERSION) --dbgsym-migration='liblldb-$(LLVM_VERSION)-dbg (<< 1:6.0-2~)'
+endif
 # ifeq (${LLD_ENABLE},yes)
 # 	dh_strip -p liblld-$(LLVM_VERSION) --dbg-package=liblld-$(LLVM_VERSION)-dbg
 # endif