diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d8efae62..02428a2a 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ llvm-toolchain-19 (1:19.1.0-4) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Adjust the workaround for apt.llvm.org version upgrades
     https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/109276
 
+  [ Matthias Klose ]
+  * Don't relax versioned shlibs dependencies for snapshot builds and
+    release versions.
+
  -- Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:26:29 +0200
 
 llvm-toolchain-19 (1:19.1.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 9892410e..f72b1628 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -12,11 +12,12 @@ GXX_VERSIONED_PACKAGE    := $(shell dpkg-query -W -f '$${Depends}' g++ | grep -o
 GXX_VERSIONED_EXECUTABLE := $(shell dpkg -L $(GXX_VERSIONED_PACKAGE) | grep '/usr/bin/g++-[0-9][0-9.]*' | xargs ls -d | tail -n1 )
 GCC_VERSION              := $(subst /usr/bin/g++-,,$(GXX_VERSIONED_EXECUTABLE))
 
+PKG_VERSION := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | awk '/^Version:/ {print $$2}')
 LLVM_EPOCH := 1:
-LLVM_VERSION   := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -rne "s,^Version: 1:([0-9]+).*,\1,p")
-LLVM_VERSION_FULL := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -rne "s,^Version: 1:([0-9.]+)(~|-)(.*),\1,p")
-LLVM_VERSION_MINOR := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -rne "s,^Version: 1:[0-9]+\.([0-9]+)\.[0-9]+.*,\1,p")
-LLVM_VERSION_SNAPSHOT := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | sed -rne "s,^Version: 1:(.*),\1,p")
+LLVM_VERSION   := $(shell echo $(PKG_VERSION) | sed -rne "s,^1:([0-9]+).*,\1,p")
+LLVM_VERSION_FULL := $(shell echo $(PKG_VERSION) | sed -rne "s,^1:([0-9.]+)(~|-)(.*),\1,p")
+LLVM_VERSION_MINOR := $(shell echo $(PKG_VERSION)  | sed -rne "s,^1:[0-9]+\.([0-9]+)\.[0-9]+.*,\1,p")
+LLVM_VERSION_SNAPSHOT := $(shell echo $(PKG_VERSION) | sed -rne "s,^1:(.*),\1,p")
 ifeq ($(LLVM_VERSION),$(LLVM_VERSION_FULL))
 	LLVM_VERSION_FULL := $(LLVM_VERSION).0.0
 	LLVM_VERSION_MINOR := 0
@@ -1429,23 +1430,26 @@ endif
 	rm -rf $(TARGET_BUILD)
 
 
+# for apt.llvm.org and prerelease versions, we are depending on the
+# upstream version. After release, assume that the ABIs don't change
+# anymore with the point releases (X.Y.1, Y.Y.2, ...)
+LLVM_RELEASE := $(LLVM_EPOCH)$(LLVM_VERSION).$(LLVM_VERSION_MINOR).0
 override_dh_makeshlibs:
-# for apt.llvm.org
-	if echo $(LLVM_VERSION_SNAPSHOT)| grep -q "~++"; then \
-		dh_makeshlibs -plibclang$(SONAME_EXT)-$(LLVM_VERSION); \
-		dh_makeshlibs -pliblldb-$(LLVM_VERSION); \
-		dh_makeshlibs -plibllvm$(LLVM_VERSION); \
-		dh_makeshlibs -plibomp$(SONAME_OPENMP)-$(LLVM_VERSION); \
-	else \
-		dh_makeshlibs -plibclang$(SONAME_EXT)-$(LLVM_VERSION) \
-			'-Vlibclang$(SONAME_EXT)-$(LLVM_VERSION) (>= 1:19.1.0)'; \
-		dh_makeshlibs -pliblldb-$(LLVM_VERSION) \
-			'-Vliblldb-$(LLVM_VERSION) (>= 1:19.1.0)'; \
-		dh_makeshlibs -plibllvm$(LLVM_VERSION) \
-			'-Vlibllvm$(LLVM_VERSION) (>= 1:19.1.0)'; \
-		dh_makeshlibs -plibomp$(SONAME_OPENMP)-$(LLVM_VERSION) \
-			'-Vlibomp$(SONAME_OPENMP)-$(LLVM_VERSION) (>= 1:19.1.0)'; \
-	fi
+ifneq (,$(findstring ~,$(PKG_VERSION))
+	dh_makeshlibs -plibclang$(SONAME_EXT)-$(LLVM_VERSION)
+	dh_makeshlibs -pliblldb-$(LLVM_VERSION)
+	dh_makeshlibs -plibllvm$(LLVM_VERSION)
+	dh_makeshlibs -plibomp$(SONAME_OPENMP)-$(LLVM_VERSION)
+else
+	dh_makeshlibs -plibclang$(SONAME_EXT)-$(LLVM_VERSION) \
+		'-Vlibclang$(SONAME_EXT)-$(LLVM_VERSION) (>= $(LLVM_RELEASE))'
+	dh_makeshlibs -pliblldb-$(LLVM_VERSION) \
+		'-Vliblldb-$(LLVM_VERSION) (>= $(LLVM_RELEASE))'
+	dh_makeshlibs -plibllvm$(LLVM_VERSION) \
+		'-Vlibllvm$(LLVM_VERSION) (>= $(LLVM_RELEASE))'
+	dh_makeshlibs -plibomp$(SONAME_OPENMP)-$(LLVM_VERSION) \
+		'-Vlibomp$(SONAME_OPENMP)-$(LLVM_VERSION) (>= $(LLVM_RELEASE))'
+endif
 	dh_makeshlibs --remaining-packages -V
 
 override_dh_shlibdeps: