diff --git a/debian/autobake-deb.sh b/debian/autobake-deb.sh
index 688698dad8a1a..157f33eb2989b 100755
--- a/debian/autobake-deb.sh
+++ b/debian/autobake-deb.sh
@@ -74,12 +74,15 @@ fi
 
 # Convert gcc version to numberical value. Format is Mmmpp where M is Major
 # version, mm is minor version and p is patch.
-GCCVERSION=$(gcc -dumpversion | sed -e 's/\.\([0-9][0-9]\)/\1/g' -e 's/\.\([0-9]\)/0\1/g' -e 's/^[0-9]\{3,4\}$/&00/')
+# -dumpfullversion & -dumpversion to make it uniform across old and new (>=7)
+GCCVERSION=$(gcc -dumpfullversion -dumpversion | sed -e 's/\.\([0-9][0-9]\)/\1/g' \
+                                                     -e 's/\.\([0-9]\)/0\1/g'     \
+						     -e 's/^[0-9]\{3,4\}$/&00/')
 # Don't build rocksdb package if gcc version is less than 4.8 or we are running on
 # x86 32 bit.
 if [[ $GCCVERSION -lt 40800 ]] || [[ $(arch) =~ i[346]86 ]]
 then
-  sed '/Package: mariadb-plugin-rocksdb/,+9d' -i debian/control
+  sed '/Package: mariadb-plugin-rocksdb/,+10d' -i debian/control
 fi
 if [[ $GCCVERSION -lt 40800 ]]
 then
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7993687057936..15a7d8d7a363a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ Architecture: any
 Depends: mariadb-server-10.2 (= ${binary:Version}),
          ${misc:Depends},
          ${shlibs:Depends}
+Recommends: python-mysqldb
 Description: RocksDB storage engine for MariaDB
  The RocksDB storage engine is a high performance storage engine, aimed
  at maximising storage efficiency while maintaining InnoDB-like performance.
diff --git a/debian/mariadb-plugin-rocksdb.install b/debian/mariadb-plugin-rocksdb.install
index ee45a822e0c42..fd71995b6a3cf 100644
--- a/debian/mariadb-plugin-rocksdb.install
+++ b/debian/mariadb-plugin-rocksdb.install
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 etc/mysql/conf.d/rocksdb.cnf etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d
 usr/lib/mysql/plugin/ha_rocksdb.so
 usr/bin/mysql_ldb
+usr/bin/myrocks_hotbackup
 usr/bin/sst_dump
diff --git a/storage/rocksdb/CMakeLists.txt b/storage/rocksdb/CMakeLists.txt
index 6cb7eb1d43943..bf95201fb4bb4 100644
--- a/storage/rocksdb/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/storage/rocksdb/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -208,6 +208,8 @@ TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(sst_dump rocksdblib)
 MYSQL_ADD_EXECUTABLE(mysql_ldb tools/mysql_ldb.cc COMPONENT rocksdb-engine)
 TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(mysql_ldb rocksdb_tools rocksdb_aux_lib)
 
+INSTALL_SCRIPT(myrocks_hotbackup COMPONENT rocksdb-engine)
+
 IF(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "GNU" OR CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "Clang")
   SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(rocksdb_tools sst_dump mysql_ldb PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS -frtti)
 ENDIF()