diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 6f3a9b97afeb9ea129f7a554a9c82c9cc85af013..5b6e6bbd19a20c6fa2f3de3423173d922d33ba3f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Source: libjson-rpc-cpp
-Priority: optional
+Priority: extra
 Maintainer: Peter Spiess-Knafl <psk@autistici.org>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), cmake, libboost-test-dev, libjsoncpp-dev, libargtable2-dev, libcurl4-openssl-dev | libcurl4-nss-dev, doxygen, libmicrohttpd-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.9.6
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ Package: libjsonrpccpp-common0-dbg
 Architecture: any
 Depends: libjsonrpccpp-common0 (= ${binary:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Section: debug
-Priority: extra
 Description: debugging symbols for libjsonrpccpp-common0
  This library provides common classes for the libjson-rpc-cpp framework like
  .
@@ -64,7 +63,6 @@ Package: libjsonrpccpp-client0-dbg
 Architecture: any
 Depends: libjsonrpccpp-common0-dbg (= ${binary:Version}), libjsonrpccpp-client0 (= ${binary:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Section: debug
-Priority: extra
 Description: debugging symbols for libjsonrpccpp-client0
  This library provides classes to easily implement JSON-RPC C++ clients.
  It comes with a built in HTTP-Client connector (based on libcurl) 
@@ -103,7 +101,6 @@ Package: libjsonrpccpp-server0-dbg
 Architecture: any
 Depends: libjsonrpccpp-common0-dbg (= ${binary:Version}), libjsonrpccpp-server0 (= ${binary:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Section: debug
-Priority: extra
 Description: debugging symbols for libjsonrpccpp-server0
  This library provides classes to easily implement JSON-RPC C++ Server 
  applications. It comes with a built in HTTP-Server connector