diff --git a/debian/.gitignore b/debian/.gitignore
index dfb58cb2..5acbf41a 100644
--- a/debian/.gitignore
+++ b/debian/.gitignore
@@ -4,5 +4,4 @@
 /.debhelper/
 /debhelper-build-stamp
 /files
-/ngcp-sems-libsems1-dev/
 /ngcp-sems/
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 8b939a4f..557c2505 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -43,25 +43,3 @@ Description: SIP Express Media Server, very fast and flexible SIP media server
  SEMS, the SIP Express Media Server, is a free, high performance, extensible media
  server for SIP (RFC3261) based VoIP  services. It features voicemail, conferencing,
  announcements, pre-call announcements, prepaid service, calling card service etc.
-
-Package: ngcp-sems-libsems1-dev
-Architecture: any
-Section: libdevel
-Conflicts:
- libsems-dev,
- ngcp-libsems-dev,
-Provides:
- libsems-dev,
-Replaces:
- libsems-dev,
- ngcp-libsems-dev,
-Depends:
- ${misc:Depends},
-Description: development files for SIP Express Media Server
- SEMS, the SIP Express Media Server, is a free, high performance,
- extensible media server for SIP (RFC3261) based VoIP services.
- It features voicemail, conferencing, announcements, pre-call
- announcements, prepaid service, calling card service etc.
- .
- This package contains the files needed to compile programs
- against sems.
diff --git a/debian/ngcp-sems-libsems1-dev.install b/debian/ngcp-sems-libsems1-dev.install
deleted file mode 100644
index 1f77c7cc..00000000
--- a/debian/ngcp-sems-libsems1-dev.install
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-Makefile.defs usr/include/sems/
-core/*.h usr/include/sems/
-core/SampleArray.cc usr/include/sems/
-core/amci usr/include/sems/
-core/ampi usr/include/sems/
-core/compat/*.c usr/include/sems/compat/
-core/compat/*.h usr/include/sems/compat/
-core/compat/getarch usr/include/sems/compat/
-core/compat/getos usr/include/sems/compat/
-core/plug-in/Makefile.app_module usr/include/sems/plug-in/
-core/plug-in/Makefile.audio_module usr/include/sems/plug-in/
-core/rtp usr/include/sems/
-core/sip/*.h usr/include/sems/sip/
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 62dbd3c2..313472ea 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -48,12 +48,3 @@ override_dh_auto_install:
 		DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/$(APP_NAME) \
 		prefix=/usr \
 		cfg_target=/etc/$(APP_NAME)/
-
-execute_after_dh_strip:
-	# MT#7431 those binaries aren't automatically stripped
-	test -r $(CURDIR)/debian/ngcp-sems-libsems1-dev/usr/include/sems/compat/getarch && \
-	  strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note --strip-unneeded \
-	  $(CURDIR)/debian/ngcp-sems-libsems1-dev/usr/include/sems/compat/getarch
-	test -r $(CURDIR)/debian/ngcp-sems-libsems1-dev/usr/include/sems/compat/getos && \
-	  strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note --strip-unneeded \
-	  $(CURDIR)/debian/ngcp-sems-libsems1-dev/usr/include/sems/compat/getos