diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8fdf7a32..cfee09e0 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+llvm-toolchain-8 (1:8.0.1~+rc1-1~exp3) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  [ John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ]
+  * Use dh-exec to exclude lib/LLVM*.so on powerpc and
+    powerpcspe from llvm-X.Y-dev.install.in
+
+ -- John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>  Sat, 25 May 2019 12:05:51 +0200
+
 llvm-toolchain-8 (1:8.0.1~+rc1-1~exp2) experimental; urgency=medium
 
   * Build using thinlto on non stretch, xenial and trusty
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 3c2eeeb8..8c48a816 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.0), cmake, chrpath, texinfo, sharutils,
     ocaml-nox [amd64 arm64 armhf i386 ppc64el s390x],
     ocaml-findlib [amd64 arm64 armhf i386 ppc64el s390x],
     libctypes-ocaml-dev [amd64 arm64 armhf i386 ppc64el s390x],
-    dh-ocaml [amd64 arm64 armhf i386 ppc64el s390x],
+    dh-exec, dh-ocaml [amd64 arm64 armhf i386 ppc64el s390x],
 Build-Conflicts: oprofile, ocaml, libllvm-3.8-ocaml-dev, libllvm-3.9-ocaml-dev
 Standards-Version: 4.2.1
 Homepage: https://www.llvm.org/
diff --git a/debian/llvm-X.Y-dev.install.in b/debian/llvm-X.Y-dev.install.in
index c08465de..9a4ca55a 100644
--- a/debian/llvm-X.Y-dev.install.in
+++ b/debian/llvm-X.Y-dev.install.in
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
+#!/usr/bin/dh-exec
+
 usr/lib/llvm-@LLVM_VERSION@/lib/libLLVM*.a
 #usr/lib/llvm-@LLVM_VERSION@/lib/libllvm*.a
-usr/lib/llvm-@LLVM_VERSION@/lib/LLVM*.so
+[!powerpc !powerpcspe] usr/lib/llvm-@LLVM_VERSION@/lib/LLVM*.so
 usr/lib/llvm-@LLVM_VERSION@/lib/libLLVM.so
 usr/lib/llvm-@LLVM_VERSION@/lib/libLLVM-@LLVM_VERSION@.so
 usr/lib/llvm-@LLVM_VERSION@/lib/libLLVM-@LLVM_VERSION_FULL@.so
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index de5370f2..58b3d0a4 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -275,6 +275,9 @@ preconfigure:
 			-e "s|@LLVM_VERSION@|$(LLVM_VERSION)|g" $$f > $$f2; \
 	done
 
+	# Make install file executable for dh-exec
+	chmod +x debian/llvm-$(LLVM_VERSION)-dev.install
+
 # Override this two targets. They are trying to manage the .in conversion for me
 override_dh_ocamlinit:
 override_dh_ocamlclean: