diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2c0763296c8..71d997074be 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Homepage: http://mariadb.org/
 Vcs-Git: https://github.com/MariaDB/server.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/MariaDB/server/
 
-Package: libmariadbclient18
+Package: libmariadb3
 Architecture: any
 Section: libs
 Depends: mariadb-common, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ Conflicts: mariadb-galera-server-10.0 (<< 10.0.5),
            mariadb-server-5.2,
            mariadb-server-5.3,
            mariadb-server-5.5 (<< 5.5.33)
+Replaces: libmariadbclient18
+Provides: libmariadbclient18
 Description: MariaDB database client library
  MariaDB is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database
  server. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the most popular database query
@@ -57,11 +59,23 @@ Description: MariaDB database client library
 Package: libmysqlclient18
 Section: libs
 Architecture: any
-Depends: libmariadbclient18 (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: libmariadb3 (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
 Replaces: libmysqlclient18 (<< ${source:Version})
 Description: Virtual package to satisfy external depends
- This is an empty package that provides an updated "best" version of
- libmysqlclient18 that does not conflict with the libmariadbclient18
+ This is an empty package that depends on the libmariadb3
+ package.
+ .
+ MariaDB is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database
+ server. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the most popular database query
+ language in the world. The main goals of MariaDB are speed, robustness and
+ ease of use.
+
+Package: libmariadbclient18
+Section: libs
+Architecture: any
+Depends: libmariadb3 (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
+Description: Virtual package to satisfy external depends
+ This is an empty package that depends on the libmariadb3
  package.
  .
  MariaDB is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database
@@ -106,19 +120,20 @@ Description: MariaDB embedded database, shared library
 Package: libmariadbclient-dev
 Architecture: any
 Section: libdevel
-Depends: libmariadbclient18 (= ${binary:Version}),
+Depends: libmariadb3 (= ${binary:Version}),
          zlib1g-dev,
          ${misc:Depends},
          ${shlibs:Depends}
-Replaces: libmariadbclient16-dev, libmysqlclient16-dev
-Conflicts: libmariadbclient16-dev,
+Replaces: libmariadbclient16-dev, libmysqlclient16-dev, libmariadbclient-dev
+Conflicts: libmariadbclient-dev,
+           libmariadbclient16-dev,
            libmysqlclient-dev,
            libmysqlclient10-dev,
            libmysqlclient12-dev,
            libmysqlclient14-dev,
            libmysqlclient15-dev,
            libmysqlclient16-dev
-Provides: libmysqlclient-dev
+Provides: libmysqlclient-dev, libmariadbclient-dev
 Description: MariaDB database development files
  MariaDB is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database
  server. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the most popular database query
@@ -153,7 +168,7 @@ Description: MariaDB database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql/conf.d/mariadb.cnf)
 
 Package: mariadb-client-core-10.2
 Architecture: any
-Depends: libmariadbclient18 (>= ${source:Version}),
+Depends: libmariadb3 (>= ${source:Version}),
          mariadb-common (>= ${source:Version}),
          ${misc:Depends},
          ${shlibs:Depends}
@@ -217,7 +232,7 @@ Description: MariaDB database core client binaries
 Package: mariadb-client-10.2
 Architecture: any
 Depends: debianutils (>=1.6),
-         libmariadbclient18 (>= ${source:Version}),
+         libmariadb3 (>= ${source:Version}),
          mariadb-client-core-10.2 (>= ${source:Version}),
          mariadb-common,
          ${misc:Depends},
@@ -271,7 +286,7 @@ Description: MariaDB database client binaries
 
 Package: mariadb-server-core-10.2
 Architecture: any
-Depends: libmariadbclient18 (>= ${binary:Version}),
+Depends: libmariadb3 (>= ${binary:Version}),
          mariadb-common (>= ${source:Version}),
          ${misc:Depends},
          ${shlibs:Depends}
diff --git a/debian/libmariadbclient-dev.README.Maintainer b/debian/libmariadb-dev.README.Maintainer
similarity index 100%
rename from debian/libmariadbclient-dev.README.Maintainer
rename to debian/libmariadb-dev.README.Maintainer
diff --git a/debian/libmariadbclient-dev.examples b/debian/libmariadb-dev.examples
similarity index 100%
rename from debian/libmariadbclient-dev.examples
rename to debian/libmariadb-dev.examples
diff --git a/debian/libmariadbclient-dev.install b/debian/libmariadb-dev.install
similarity index 100%
rename from debian/libmariadbclient-dev.install
rename to debian/libmariadb-dev.install
diff --git a/debian/libmariadbclient-dev.links b/debian/libmariadb-dev.links
similarity index 100%
rename from debian/libmariadbclient-dev.links
rename to debian/libmariadb-dev.links
diff --git a/debian/libmariadbclient-dev.manpages b/debian/libmariadb-dev.manpages
similarity index 100%
rename from debian/libmariadbclient-dev.manpages
rename to debian/libmariadb-dev.manpages
diff --git a/debian/libmariadbclient18.install b/debian/libmariadb3.install
similarity index 100%
rename from debian/libmariadbclient18.install
rename to debian/libmariadb3.install
diff --git a/debian/libmariadbclient18.postinst b/debian/libmariadb3.postinst
similarity index 100%
rename from debian/libmariadbclient18.postinst
rename to debian/libmariadb3.postinst
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index b0a4ceddca9..f85dcdeccfc 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ override_dh_auto_configure:
 	# Remove symbols file on kFreeBSD builds so that
 	# dpkg-gensymbols will not fail the build.
 ifneq (,$(filter $(ARCH), kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64))
-	rm debian/libmariadbclient18.symbols
+	rm debian/libmariadb3.symbols
 endif
 
 	mkdir -p $(BUILDDIR) && cd $(BUILDDIR) && \