diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 6be2f73d..830aa72b 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -252,6 +252,40 @@ Description: special build of the popular Wine software
  This package includes debugging symbols useful for reporting crashes and other
  failures.
 
+Package: wine-staging-compat
+Architecture: i386 amd64
+Depends: wine-staging, ${misc:Depends}
+Section: otherosfs
+Priority: optional
+Replaces:   wine, wine1.4, wine1.5, wine1.6, wine1.7, wine-i386, wine1.4-i386,
+            wine1.5-i386, wine1.6-i386, wine1.7-i386, ine-amd64, wine1.4-amd64,
+            wine1.5-amd64, wine1.6-amd64, wine1.7-amd64
+Conflicts:  wine, wine-i386, wine-amd64
+Provides:   wine, wine1.4, wine1.5, wine1.6, wine1.7, wine-i386, wine1.4-i386,
+            wine1.5-i386, wine1.6-i386, wine1.7-i386, wine-amd64 [amd64],
+            wine1.4-amd64 [amd64], wine1.5-amd64 [amd64], wine1.6-amd64 [amd64],
+            wine1.7-amd64 [amd64]
+Description: special build of the popular Wine software
+ The Staging Edition is a special build of the popular Wine software
+ with patches representing our current staging tree for Wine.
+ .
+ Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Binary Emulator and Library)
+ Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows applications on Linux.
+ Applications are run at full speed without the need of cpu emulation. Wine
+ does not require Microsoft Windows, however it can use native system dll
+ files in place of its own if they are available.
+ .
+ This package includes a program loader for running unmodified Windows
+ executables as well as the Wine project's free version of the Windows API
+ for running programs ported from Windows.
+ .
+ This package is based on a recent Wine beta.  While many more applications
+ will work, there may be some loss of functionality compared with the stable
+ release provided by the regular wine package.
+ .
+ This compatibility package allows to use Wine Staging system-wide as
+ the default Wine version.
+
 Package: wine-compholio
 Architecture: i386 amd64
 Depends: wine-staging, ${misc:Depends}
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 913ba45c..afb1cd1e 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -56,18 +56,23 @@ override_dh_install:
 
 	# Create compatibility symlinks
 	mkdir -p debian/wine-compholio/opt/wine-compholio/bin
+	mkdir -p debian/wine-staging-compat/usr/bin
+
 	for _file in $$(ls "debian/wine-staging/opt/wine-staging/bin"); do \
 		ln -s "/opt/wine-staging/bin/$$_file" "debian/wine-compholio/opt/wine-compholio/bin/$$_file"; \
+		ln -s "/opt/wine-staging/bin/$$_file" "debian/wine-staging-compat/usr/bin/$$_file"; \
 	done
 
 	# Architecture specific compatibility symlinks
 ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),amd64)
 	for _file in wine wine-preloader wine64 wine64-preloader; do \
 		ln -s "/opt/wine-staging/bin/$$_file" "debian/wine-compholio/opt/wine-compholio/bin/$$_file"; \
+		ln -s "/opt/wine-staging/bin/$$_file" "debian/wine-staging-compat/usr/bin/$$_file"; \
 	done
 else
 	for _file in wine wine-preloader; do \
 		ln -s "/opt/wine-staging/bin/$$_file" "debian/wine-compholio/opt/wine-compholio/bin/$$_file"; \
+		ln -s "/opt/wine-staging/bin/$$_file" "debian/wine-staging-compat/usr/bin/$$_file"; \
 	done
 endif