--- elfutils-0.176/src/elfcompress.c	2019-02-15 15:46:47.000000000 +0000
+++ elfutils-0.176/src/elfcompress.c	2019-07-18 09:13:29.159806022 +0000
@@ -134,8 +142,10 @@ parse_opt (int key, char *arg __attribut
     case ARGP_KEY_SUCCESS:
       if (type == T_UNSET)
 	type = T_COMPRESS_ZLIB;
-      if (patterns == NULL)
-	add_pattern (".?(z)debug*");
+      if (patterns == NULL) {
+	add_pattern (".debug*");
+	add_pattern (".zdebug*");
+      }
       break;
 
     case ARGP_KEY_NO_ARGS:
@@ -1312,7 +1322,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
 	N_("What type of compression to apply. TYPE can be 'none' (decompress), 'zlib' (ELF ZLIB compression, the default, 'zlib-gabi' is an alias) or 'zlib-gnu' (.zdebug GNU style compression, 'gnu' is an alias)"),
 	0 },
       { "name", 'n', "SECTION", 0,
-	N_("SECTION name to (de)compress, SECTION is an extended wildcard pattern (defaults to '.?(z)debug*')"),
+	N_("SECTION name to (de)compress, SECTION is an wildcard pattern (defaults to '.debug*' and '.zdebug*')"),
 	0 },
       { "verbose", 'v', NULL, 0,
 	N_("Print a message for each section being (de)compressed"),