diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 6e8676d4be..def580d7cb 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,9 +1,17 @@
-gitlab (10.7.5+dfsg-2~bpo9+1) stretch-backports; urgency=medium
+gitlab (10.7.5+dfsg-3~bpo9+1) stretch-backports; urgency=medium
 
   * Rebuild for stretch-backports.
 
  -- Pirate Praveen <praveen@debian.org>  Sun, 03 Jun 2018 21:03:45 +0530
 
+gitlab (10.7.5+dfsg-3) experimental; urgency=medium
+
+  * Relax ruby version check (2.3.3 includes security fixes)
+  * Add gitlab-common binary to handle user creation for gitlab and gitaly
+    (Closes: #901310)
+
+ -- Pirate Praveen <praveen@debian.org>  Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:57:34 +0530
+
 gitlab (10.7.5+dfsg-2) experimental; urgency=medium
 
   * Bump minimum version of gitlab-workhorse to 4.1.0
diff --git a/debian/conf/gitlab b/debian/conf/gitlab
index 9918667d2a..651b242a7e 100755
--- a/debian/conf/gitlab
+++ b/debian/conf/gitlab
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ RAILS_ENV="production"
 
 # Read debian specific configuration
 . /etc/gitlab/gitlab-debian.conf
+. /etc/gitlab-common/gitlab-common.conf
 
 for i in $(grep -v '#' /etc/gitlab/gitlab-debian.conf | cut -d= -f 1)
 do
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ done
 
 # app_user defines the user that GitLab is run as.
 # The default is "git".
-app_user=${gitlab_user}
+export app_user=${gitlab_user}
 
 # app_root defines the folder in which gitlab and it's components are installed.
 # The default is "/home/$app_user/gitlab"