diff --git a/scripts/libmakepkg/executable/debugedit.sh.in b/scripts/libmakepkg/executable/debugedit.sh.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ec0ab814
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/libmakepkg/executable/debugedit.sh.in
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+#!/usr/bin/bash
+#
+#   debugedit.sh - Confirm presence of debugedit binary
+#
+#   Copyright (c) 2011-2022 Pacman Development Team <pacman-dev@lists.archlinux.org>
+#
+#   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+#   (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#   GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+
+[[ -n "$LIBMAKEPKG_EXECUTABLE_DEBUGEDIT_SH" ]] && return
+LIBMAKEPKG_EXECUTABLE_DEBUGEDIT_SH=1
+
+LIBRARY=${LIBRARY:-'@libmakepkgdir@'}
+
+source "$LIBRARY/util/message.sh"
+source "$LIBRARY/util/option.sh"
+
+executable_functions+=('executable_debugedit')
+
+executable_debugedit() {
+	if check_option "debug" "y"; then
+		if ! type -p debugedit >/dev/null; then
+			error "$(gettext "Cannot find the %s binary required for source files in debug packages.")" "debugedit"
+			return 1
+		fi
+	fi
+}
diff --git a/scripts/libmakepkg/tidy/strip.sh.in b/scripts/libmakepkg/tidy/strip.sh.in
index 92a6fb15..84732c6f 100644
--- a/scripts/libmakepkg/tidy/strip.sh.in
+++ b/scripts/libmakepkg/tidy/strip.sh.in
@@ -36,8 +36,23 @@ build_id() {
 }
 
 source_files() {
-	LANG=C readelf "$1" --debug-dump 2>/dev/null | \
-		awk '/DW_AT_name +:/{name=$NF}/DW_AT_comp_dir +:/{{if (name == "<artificial>") next}{if (name !~ /^[<\/]/) {printf "%s/", $NF}}{print name}}'
+	# debugedit rewrites the binary. In most cases this is handled by the gcc
+	# prefix-map switches which rewrites $srcdir to $dbgsrcdir. debugedit will
+	# not do anything in those cases. However for binaries that does not have a
+	# prefix-map debugedit is going to modify the binary correcting the paths.
+	#
+	# From the mailing list discussion:
+	# * Without -b/-d: it just lists all source files.
+	# * With -b, it prints all source files rooted in the specified directory, but strips the
+	#   prefix from the output.
+	# * With both -b and -d, it replaces any base-dir prefixes with dest-dir
+	#   (modifying the binary), then prints all paths rooted in the dest-dir
+	#   (again, stripping the dest-dir prefix in the output).
+	LANG=C debugedit --no-recompute-build-id \
+		--base-dir "${srcdir}" \
+		--dest-dir "${dbgsrcdir}" \
+		--list-file /dev/stdout "$1" \
+		| sort -zu | tr '\0' '\n'
 }
 
 strip_file() {
@@ -58,9 +73,9 @@ strip_file() {
 		# copy source files to debug directory
 		local file dest t
 		while IFS= read -r t; do
-			file=${t/${dbgsrcdir}/"$srcdir"}
-			dest="${dbgsrc/"$dbgsrcdir"/}$t"
-			if ! [[ -f $dest ]]; then
+			file="${srcdir}/${t}"
+			dest="${dbgsrc}/${t}"
+			if [[ -f "$file" ]] && ! [[ -f $dest ]]; then
 				mkdir -p "${dest%/*}"
 				cp -- "$file" "$dest"
 			fi