diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index e3d9698e..bc8a4dbd 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -196,6 +196,12 @@ ifneq (,$(filter $(DEB_HOST_ARCH),hurd-i386))
   STAGE_ALL_CMAKE_EXTRA += -DCOMPILER_RT_DEFAULT_TARGET_ONLY=ON
 endif
 
+LLDB_PYTHON_UNSUPPORTED_DISTRO := stretch
+# Don't enable lld python for old distros
+ifeq (,$(filter $(DISTRO), $(LLDB_PYTHON_UNSUPPORTED_DISTRO)))
+  STAGE_ALL_CMAKE_EXTRA += -DLLDB_ENABLE_PYTHON=OFF
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(shell dpkg --compare-versions $(shell dpkg-query -W -f '$${Version}' g++-$(GCC_VERSION)) ge 4.8-20121128-1~ ; echo $$?),0)
 	control_vars = '-Vdep:devlibs=libstdc++-$(GCC_VERSION)-dev, libgcc-$(GCC_VERSION)-dev' \
 		'-Vdep:devlibs-objc=libobjc-$(GCC_VERSION)-dev'