diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8013e30782..e086ced590 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ src/resources/org/apache/cassandra/config/
 build-stamp
 build.properties
 debian/cassandra*debhelper*
-debian/cassandra.substvars
+debian/cassandra*.substvars
 debian/cassandra/
+debian/cassandra-tools/
 debian/files
 
 # gitignore doesn't help with modified files - you may wish to:
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index b6bd8cc808..fd48d20bbf 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
  * Make incremental repair default (CASSANDRA-7250)
 
 2.1.0-rc1
+ * Move less common tools into a new cassandra-tools package (CASSANDRA-7160)
  * Support more concurrent requests in native protocol (CASSANDRA-7231)
  * Add tab-completion to debian nodetool packaging (CASSANDRA-6421)
  * Change concurrent_compactors defaults (CASSANDRA-7139)
diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 9d7ea40478..0a54d2bd8a 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ Cassandra for Debian
 ====================
 
 This package is not a part of Debian, (and there are no immediate plans
-to have it added). Bugs should be sent to eevans@apache.org, *not* filed
-in the Debian BTS.
+to have it added). Bugs should be sent to the Apache Cassandra JIRA, *not*
+filed in the Debian BTS.
+
+  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA
 
- -- Eric Evans <eevans@apache.org>  Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:35:11 -0500
diff --git a/debian/cassandra-tools.install b/debian/cassandra-tools.install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6df21f399c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/cassandra-tools.install
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+tools/bin/json2sstable usr/bin
+tools/bin/sstable2json usr/bin
+tools/bin/sstablelevelreset usr/bin
+tools/bin/sstablemetadata usr/bin
+tools/bin/sstablerepairedset usr/bin
+tools/bin/sstablesplit usr/bin
+tools/bin/token-generator usr/bin
diff --git a/debian/cassandra.install b/debian/cassandra.install
index ff504577e3..5b6a81b1ce 100644
--- a/debian/cassandra.install
+++ b/debian/cassandra.install
@@ -13,19 +13,13 @@ debian/cassandra-sysctl.conf etc/sysctl.d
 bin/cassandra usr/sbin
 bin/cassandra-cli usr/bin
 bin/nodetool usr/bin
-bin/json2sstable usr/bin
-bin/sstable2json usr/bin
 bin/sstablekeys usr/bin
 bin/sstableloader usr/bin
 bin/cqlsh usr/bin
 bin/sstablescrub usr/bin
 bin/sstableupgrade usr/bin
-bin/sstablesplit usr/bin
 bin/cassandra-shuffle usr/bin
 tools/bin/cassandra-stress usr/bin
-tools/bin/token-generator usr/bin
-tools/bin/sstablelevelreset usr/bin
-tools/bin/sstablemetadata usr/bin
 lib/*.jar usr/share/cassandra/lib
 lib/*.zip usr/share/cassandra/lib
 lib/licenses usr/share/doc/cassandra
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index b481e30d8d..cc0c49ba66 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -18,3 +18,12 @@ Replaces: apache-cassandra1
 Description: distributed storage system for structured data
  Cassandra is a distributed (peer-to-peer) system for the management
  and storage of structured data.
+
+Package: cassandra-tools
+Architecture: all
+Depends: cassandra (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
+Description: distributed storage system for structured data
+ Cassandra is a distributed (peer-to-peer) system for the management
+ and storage of structured data.
+ .
+ This package contains extra tools for working with Cassandra clusters.
diff --git a/tools/bin/cassandra.in.sh b/tools/bin/cassandra.in.sh
index 74f1cc8fba..4b81514d94 100644
--- a/tools/bin/cassandra.in.sh
+++ b/tools/bin/cassandra.in.sh
@@ -15,31 +15,31 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 if [ "x$CASSANDRA_HOME" = "x" ]; then
-    CASSANDRA_HOME=`dirname $0`/../../
+    CASSANDRA_HOME="`dirname $0`/../.."
 fi
 
 # The directory where Cassandra's configs live (required)
 if [ "x$CASSANDRA_CONF" = "x" ]; then
-    CASSANDRA_CONF=$CASSANDRA_HOME/conf
+    CASSANDRA_CONF="$CASSANDRA_HOME/conf"
 fi
 
 # This can be the path to a jar file, or a directory containing the
 # compiled classes. NOTE: This isn't needed by the startup script,
 # it's just used here in constructing the classpath.
-cassandra_bin=$CASSANDRA_HOME/build/classes/main
-cassandra_bin=$cassandra_bin:$CASSANDRA_HOME/build/classes/stress
-cassandra_bin=$cassandra_bin:$CASSANDRA_HOME/build/classes/thrift
-#cassandra_bin=$cassandra_home/build/cassandra.jar
+cassandra_bin="$CASSANDRA_HOME/build/classes/main"
+cassandra_bin="$cassandra_bin:$CASSANDRA_HOME/build/classes/stress"
+cassandra_bin="$cassandra_bin:$CASSANDRA_HOME/build/classes/thrift"
+#cassandra_bin="$cassandra_home/build/cassandra.jar"
 
 # JAVA_HOME can optionally be set here
 #JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk6
 
 # The java classpath (required)
-CLASSPATH=$CASSANDRA_CONF:$cassandra_bin
+CLASSPATH="$CASSANDRA_CONF:$cassandra_bin"
 
-for jar in $CASSANDRA_HOME/tools/lib/*.jar; do
-    CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$jar
+for jar in "$CASSANDRA_HOME"/tools/lib/*.jar; do
+    CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:$jar"
 done
-for jar in $CASSANDRA_HOME/lib/*.jar; do
-    CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$jar
+for jar in "$CASSANDRA_HOME"/lib/*.jar; do
+    CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:$jar"
 done
diff --git a/bin/json2sstable b/tools/bin/json2sstable
similarity index 100%
rename from bin/json2sstable
rename to tools/bin/json2sstable
diff --git a/bin/json2sstable.bat b/tools/bin/json2sstable.bat
similarity index 100%
rename from bin/json2sstable.bat
rename to tools/bin/json2sstable.bat
diff --git a/bin/sstable2json b/tools/bin/sstable2json
similarity index 100%
rename from bin/sstable2json
rename to tools/bin/sstable2json
diff --git a/bin/sstable2json.bat b/tools/bin/sstable2json.bat
similarity index 100%
rename from bin/sstable2json.bat
rename to tools/bin/sstable2json.bat
diff --git a/bin/sstablesplit b/tools/bin/sstablesplit
similarity index 100%
rename from bin/sstablesplit
rename to tools/bin/sstablesplit
diff --git a/bin/sstablesplit.bat b/tools/bin/sstablesplit.bat
similarity index 100%
rename from bin/sstablesplit.bat
rename to tools/bin/sstablesplit.bat