diff --git a/RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md b/RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md
index 7312d4d..3b926bd 100644
--- a/RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md
@@ -301,3 +301,15 @@ Kernel update with "apt-get" will not work since bootloader configuration will
 not be updated. It used to "kind of work" for grub and efi, that hack is gone.
 
 When using the plugins it is advised to name the partition "/boot" and to exclude boot from the follwing rootfs to not waste space.
+
+### Deprecate U_BOOT_TOOLS_PACKAGE and U_BOOT_CONFIG_PACKAGE
+
+Use U_BOOT_BUILD_PROFILES instead of U_BOOT_TOOLS_PACKAGE and U_BOOT_CONFIG_PACKAGE
+
+U_BOOT_TOOLS_PACKAGE = "1" is achieved by U_BOOT_BUILD_PROFILES += "tools"
+U_BOOT_CONFIG_PACKAGE = "1" is achieved by U_BOOT_BUILD_PROFILES += "config"
+
+u-boot-${MACHINE}-dev package build can also be controlled now. Enabled by default
+in u-boot-custom.inc. To remove use the below code in your recipe.
+
+U_BOOT_BUILD_PROFILES_remove = "dev"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/debian/control.tmpl b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/debian/control.tmpl
index 9379be7..7ac11ad 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/debian/control.tmpl
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/debian/control.tmpl
@@ -11,4 +11,17 @@ Description: ${DESCRIPTION}, bootloader binaries
 
 Package: u-boot-${MACHINE}-dev
 Architecture: ${DISTRO_ARCH}
+Build-Profiles: <dev>
 Description: ${DESCRIPTION}, bootloader libraries
+
+Package: u-boot-tools
+Architecture: linux-any
+Build-Profiles: <tools>
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Description: ${DESCRIPTION}, companion tools
+
+Package: u-boot-${MACHINE}-config
+Build-Profiles: <config>
+Provides: u-boot-config
+Architecture: ${DISTRO_ARCH}
+Description: ${DESCRIPTION}, environment configuration
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/debian/rules b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/debian/rules
index 3d66762..121b00e 100755
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/debian/rules
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/debian/rules
@@ -20,10 +20,17 @@ override_dh_auto_build:
 	else \
 		./scripts/get_default_envs.sh >u-boot-initial-env; \
 	fi
-	$(MAKE) $(PARALLEL_MAKE) $(SET_CROSS_BUILD_TOOLS) NO_SDL=1 tools-only envtools
+ifneq (,$(filter dev,$(DEB_BUILD_PROFILES)))
+	$(MAKE) $(PARALLEL_MAKE) $(SET_CROSS_BUILD_TOOLS) NO_SDL=1 envtools
+endif
+ifneq (,$(filter tools,$(DEB_BUILD_PROFILES)))
+	$(MAKE) $(PARALLEL_MAKE) $(SET_CROSS_BUILD_TOOLS) NO_SDL=1 tools-only
+endif
 
 override_dh_auto_install:
+ifneq (,$(filter dev,$(DEB_BUILD_PROFILES)))
 	mv tools/env/lib.a tools/env/libubootenv.a
+endif
 
 override_dh_auto_test:
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-custom.inc b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-custom.inc
index 3680f01..5e8a15b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-custom.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-bsp/u-boot/u-boot-custom.inc
@@ -9,10 +9,13 @@ FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${FILE_DIRNAME}/files:"
 
 DESCRIPTION ?= "Custom U-Boot"
 
-PROVIDES += "u-boot-${MACHINE} u-boot-${MACHINE}-dev"
-PROVIDES += "${@'u-boot-tools' if d.getVar('U_BOOT_TOOLS_PACKAGE') == '1' else ''}"
+PROVIDES += "u-boot-${MACHINE}"
+PROVIDES += "${@'u-boot-tools' \
+	if bb.utils.contains('U_BOOT_BUILD_PROFILES', 'tools', 1, 0, d) else ''}"
 PROVIDES += "${@('u-boot-config u-boot-' + d.getVar('MACHINE') + '-config') \
-    if d.getVar('U_BOOT_CONFIG_PACKAGE') == '1' else ''}"
+	if bb.utils.contains('U_BOOT_BUILD_PROFILES', 'config', 1, 0, d) else ''}"
+PROVIDES += "${@('u-boot-' + d.getVar('MACHINE') + '-dev') \
+	if bb.utils.contains('U_BOOT_BUILD_PROFILES', 'dev', 1, 0, d) else ''}"
 
 inherit dpkg
 
@@ -22,6 +25,20 @@ python() {
     if d.getVar('BUILD_DEPENDS'):
         bb.warn("u-boot-custom: Deprecated use of BUILD_DEPENDS, please switch to DEBIAN_BUILD_DEPENDS")
         d.setVar('DEBIAN_BUILD_DEPENDS', d.getVar('BUILD_DEPENDS'))
+
+    if d.getVar('U_BOOT_TOOLS_PACKAGE') is not None:
+        bb.warn("u-boot-custom: Deprecated use of U_BOOT_TOOLS_PACKAGE, please switch to U_BOOT_BUILD_PROFILES")
+        if d.getVar('U_BOOT_TOOLS_PACKAGE') == "1":
+            d.appendVar('U_BOOT_BUILD_PROFILES', " tools")
+        else:
+            d.setVar('U_BOOT_BUILD_PROFILES_remove', "tools")
+
+    if d.getVar('U_BOOT_CONFIG_PACKAGE') is not None:
+        bb.warn("u-boot-custom: Deprecated use of U_BOOT_CONFIG_PACKAGE, please switch to U_BOOT_BUILD_PROFILES")
+        if d.getVar('U_BOOT_CONFIG_PACKAGE') == "1":
+            d.appendVar('U_BOOT_BUILD_PROFILES', " config")
+        else:
+            d.setVar('U_BOOT_BUILD_PROFILES_remove', "config")
 }
 
 DEBIAN_BUILD_DEPENDS ?= "bc, bison, flex, device-tree-compiler, git, libssl-dev:native"
@@ -30,8 +47,8 @@ DEBIAN_BUILD_DEPENDS += "${@', libssl-dev' if d.getVar('ISAR_CROSS_COMPILE') ==
 TEMPLATE_FILES = "debian/control.tmpl"
 TEMPLATE_VARS += "MACHINE DEBIAN_BUILD_DEPENDS"
 
-U_BOOT_TOOLS_PACKAGE ?= "0"
-U_BOOT_CONFIG_PACKAGE ?= "0"
+
+U_BOOT_BUILD_PROFILES ?= "dev"
 
 do_prepare_build() {
     cp -r ${WORKDIR}/debian ${S}/
@@ -41,31 +58,15 @@ do_prepare_build() {
     echo "${U_BOOT_BIN} /usr/lib/u-boot/${MACHINE}" > \
         ${S}/debian/u-boot-${MACHINE}.install
 
-    echo "tools/env/libubootenv.a usr/lib" > \
-        ${S}/debian/u-boot-${MACHINE}-dev.install
-
-    if [ "${U_BOOT_TOOLS_PACKAGE}" = "1" ]; then
-        cat <<EOF >>${S}/debian/control
-
-Package: u-boot-tools
-Architecture: linux-any
-Depends: \${shlibs:Depends}, \${misc:Depends}
-Description: ${DESCRIPTION}, companion tools
-EOF
+    if [ "${@bb.utils.contains('U_BOOT_BUILD_PROFILES', 'dev', 'yes', 'no', d)}" = "yes" ];then
+        echo "tools/env/libubootenv.a usr/lib" > \
+            ${S}/debian/u-boot-${MACHINE}-dev.install
     fi
 
-    if [ "${U_BOOT_CONFIG_PACKAGE}" = "1" ]; then
+    if [ "${@bb.utils.contains('U_BOOT_BUILD_PROFILES', 'config', 'yes', 'no', d)}" = "yes" ];then
         cp ${WORKDIR}/fw_env.config ${S}/ || \
             die "U_BOOT_CONFIG_PACKAGE requires a fw_env.config in SRC_URI"
 
-        cat <<EOF >>${S}/debian/control
-
-Package: u-boot-${MACHINE}-config
-Provides: u-boot-config
-Architecture: ${DISTRO_ARCH}
-Description: ${DESCRIPTION}, environment configuration
-EOF
-
         cat <<EOF >>${S}/debian/u-boot-${MACHINE}-config.install
 u-boot-initial-env /etc
 fw_env.config      /etc
@@ -76,4 +77,5 @@ EOF
 dpkg_runbuild_prepend() {
     export U_BOOT_CONFIG="${U_BOOT_CONFIG}"
     export U_BOOT_BIN="${U_BOOT_BIN}"
+    export DEB_BUILD_PROFILES="${U_BOOT_BUILD_PROFILES}"
 }
