diff --git a/src/plugins/qt4projectmanager/qt-maemo/maemotemplatesmanager.cpp b/src/plugins/qt4projectmanager/qt-maemo/maemotemplatesmanager.cpp
index 29a8f9cd0e4..22c1e502f44 100644
--- a/src/plugins/qt4projectmanager/qt-maemo/maemotemplatesmanager.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/qt4projectmanager/qt-maemo/maemotemplatesmanager.cpp
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ bool MaemoTemplatesManager::createDebianTemplatesIfNecessary(const ProjectExplor
     QByteArray rulesContents = rulesFile.readAll();
     rulesContents.replace("DESTDIR", "INSTALL_ROOT");
     rulesContents.replace("dh_shlibdeps", "# dh_shlibdeps");
+    rulesContents.replace("dh_strip", "# dh_strip");
 
     // Would be the right solution, but does not work (on Windows),
     // because dpkg-genchanges doesn't know about it (and can't be told).