diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index fa451ae9..694d7869 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ llvm-toolchain-snapshot (1:8~svn336894-1~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
       clang_Type_getObjCProtocolDecl
       clang_Type_getObjCTypeArg
   * python-recommonmark is a new build dep for the sphinx doc
+  * dh_strip should be verbose
+  * On Stretch (binutils 2.28), do not run strip on libFuzzer.a, libc++.a
+    & libc++abi.a because it segfaults
   * Disable force-gcc-header-obj.diff as it is introducing
     some regressions in the search headers
     (Closes: #903709)
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index f3735262..ce7158a9 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -597,7 +597,12 @@ endif
 # ifeq (${LLD_ENABLE},yes)
 # 	dh_strip -p liblld-$(LLVM_VERSION) --dbg-package=liblld-$(LLVM_VERSION)-dbg
 # endif
-	dh_strip -a
+ifeq ($(shell dpkg --compare-versions $(shell dpkg-query -W -f '$${Version}' binutils) ge 2.28 ; echo $$?),0)
+# strip segfaults on libFuzzer.a
+	dh_strip -a -v -XlibFuzzer.a -Xlibc++.a -Xlibc++abi.a
+else
+	dh_strip -a -v
+endif
 
 
 override_dh_install: