diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 40c8aadd..b4de5d61 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 	<!-- define output paths -->
 	<property name="path.fatjar" location="${dir.dist}/${title}_${version}.jar" />
 	<property name="path.appbundle.tar.gz" location="${dir.dist}/${title}_${version}.app.tar.gz" />
-	<property name="path.ubuntu-binary.tar.gz" location="${dir.dist}/filebot-${version}-ubuntu.tar.gz" />
 	<property name="path.source.zip" location="${dir.dist}/filebot-${version}-src.zip" />
 
 	<property name="basedir.release" location="${basedir}/release" />
@@ -365,11 +364,16 @@
 	</target>
 
 
-	<target name="ppa-binary" depends="svn-update, fatjar">
+	<target name="ubuntu-debsrc" depends="svn-update, fatjar">
 		<property name="jre.dir" value="${basedir}/jre" />
 		<property name="jre.version" value="jdk-8u25" />
 
-		<tar destfile="${path.ubuntu-binary.tar.gz}" compression="gzip" longfile="gnu">
+		<property name="path.tarbin" location="${dir.dist}/filebot-${version}-tarbin.tar.gz" />
+		<property name="path.debsrc" location="${dir.dist}/filebot-${version}-debsrc.tar.gz" />
+		<property name="dir.debsrc" location="${dir.dist}/debian-source-package/filebot/filebot-${version}" />
+
+		<!-- collect binary content -->
+		<tar destfile="${path.tarbin}" compression="gzip" longfile="gnu">
 			<tarfileset fullpath="i386/filebot/FileBot.jar" file="${path.fatjar}" />
 			<tarfileset fullpath="amd64/filebot/FileBot.jar" file="${path.fatjar}" />
 
@@ -395,9 +399,24 @@
 			<tarfileset prefix="amd64/filebot/jre" dir="${jre.dir}/${jre.version}-linux-x64/jre" includes="bin/java" filemode="755" />
 		</tar>
 
+		<!-- build debian source package for application binaries -->
+		<copy todir="${dir.debsrc}">
+			<fileset dir="${dir.installer}/ubuntu" includes="debian/**" />
+		</copy>
+		<untar src="${path.tarbin}" dest="${dir.debsrc}" compression="gzip" />
+
+		<!-- debuild -S -->
+		<exec dir="${dir.debsrc}" executable="debuild">
+			<arg line="-S" />
+		</exec>
+		<!-- tar cvzf filebot-4.5.2-debsrc.tar.gz *.dsc *.changes *.tar.gz -->
+		<tar destfile="${path.debsrc}" compression="gzip">
+			<tarfileset dir="${dir.debsrc}/.." includes="*.dsc, *.changes, *.tar.gz" />
+		</tar>
+
 		<!-- store this build in releases -->
 		<mkdir dir="${dir.release}" />
-		<copy todir="${dir.release}" file="${path.ubuntu-binary.tar.gz}" verbose="yes" />
+		<copy todir="${dir.release}" file="${path.debsrc}" verbose="yes" />
 	</target>
 
 
diff --git a/installer/ubuntu/debian/changelog b/installer/ubuntu/debian/changelog
index 64d4c99f..93c96000 100644
--- a/installer/ubuntu/debian/changelog
+++ b/installer/ubuntu/debian/changelog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-filebot (4.5.3-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low
+filebot (4.5.3) trusty; urgency=low
 
   * Change Output Folder button in Format Dialog
   * Extract All will now only extract not-already-extracted files from the selected archives
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ filebot (4.5.3-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low
 
  -- Reinhard Pointner <rednoah@users.sourceforge.net>  Fri, 08 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0800
 
-filebot (4.5.2-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low
+filebot (4.5.2) trusty; urgency=low
 
   * Opportunistic / Strict mode matching
   * Improved episode / movie / music auto-detection
diff --git a/installer/ubuntu/debian/source/options b/installer/ubuntu/debian/source/options
index db111cab..5af8f18c 100644
--- a/installer/ubuntu/debian/source/options
+++ b/installer/ubuntu/debian/source/options
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 tar-ignore = "NULL"
 diff-ignore = "^NULL$"
 extend-diff-ignore = "^NULL$"
-compression = "xz"
+compression = "gzip"