diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index a435048ddf..ee3ff54c44 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ Maintainer: Aaron Boxer <boxerab@gmail.com>
 Homepage: https://github.com/GrokImageCompression/grok
 Build-Depends: cmake (>= 3.16.0),
                debhelper-compat (= 13),
-               doxygen,
                help2man,
                liblcms2-dev,
                libpng-dev,
@@ -12,6 +11,7 @@ Build-Depends: cmake (>= 3.16.0),
                libtiff-dev,
                libturbojpeg0-dev,
                zlib1g-dev
+Build-Depends-Indep: doxygen
 Standards-Version: 4.5.0
 Section: libs
 Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/GrokImageCompression/grok
@@ -29,20 +29,20 @@ Description: JPEG 2000 image compression/decompression library
  progressive decoding by pixel and resolution accuracy.
  It supports lossless and lossy compression and is resilient to image errors.
  .
- This package contains the runtime files for Grok
+ This package contains the runtime files for Grok.
 
 Package: libgrokj2k1-dev
 Section: libdevel
 Architecture: any
 Depends: libgrokj2k1 (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
+Recommends: libgrokj2k1-doc (= ${source:Version})
 Description: development files for Grok, a JPEG 2000 image library
  Grok is a library for handling the JPEG 2000 image compression format.
  JPEG 2000 is a wavelet-based image compression standard that permits
  progressive decoding by pixel and resolution accuracy.
  It supports lossless and lossy compression and is resilient to image errors.
  .
- This package contains the development files for Grok
-
+ This package contains the development files for Grok.
 
 Package: grokj2k-tools
 Section: graphics
@@ -58,3 +58,15 @@ Description: command-line tools for the Grok JPEG 2000 library
   - grk_compress: encode pnm, pgm, pgx, bmp, or ppm file to j2k
                   or jp2 file.
   - grk_dump: dump information contained in a j2k or jp2 file.
+
+Package: libgrokj2k1-doc
+Section: doc
+Architecture: all
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}
+Description: documentation for the Grok JPEG 2000 library
+ Grok is a library for handling the JPEG 2000 image compression format.
+ JPEG 2000 is a wavelet-based image compression standard that permits
+ progressive decoding by pixel and resolution accuracy.
+ It supports lossless and lossy compression and is resilient to image errors.
+ .
+ This package contains the documentation for Grok.
diff --git a/debian/libgrokj2k1-doc.doc-base b/debian/libgrokj2k1-doc.doc-base
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..63e21f3bd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/libgrokj2k1-doc.doc-base
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Document: libgrokj2k1
+Title: libgrokj2k1 API Manual
+Author: libgrokj2k1 project
+Abstract: This manual describes the API of Grok, a JPEG 2000 library.
+Section: Programming
+
+Format: HTML
+Index: /usr/share/doc/libgrokj2k1/html/index.html
+Files: /usr/share/doc/libgrokj2k1/html/*.html
diff --git a/debian/libgrokj2k1-doc.docs b/debian/libgrokj2k1-doc.docs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6ab017334d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/libgrokj2k1-doc.docs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/GROK/html/
diff --git a/debian/libgrokj2k1.symbols b/debian/libgrokj2k1.symbols
index 6555463496..bfb6aeff94 100644
--- a/debian/libgrokj2k1.symbols
+++ b/debian/libgrokj2k1.symbols
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-libgrokj2k.so.1 libgrokj2k1 #MINVER#
+libgrokj2k.so.1 libgrokj2k1
+| libgrokj2k1 #MINVER#
+* Build-Depends-Package: libgrokj2k1-dev
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