diff --git a/create_package.sh b/create_package.sh
index 57acc05d9d..f7758e53a9 100755
--- a/create_package.sh
+++ b/create_package.sh
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ if [ "$ov_use_binary" == "0" ] ; then cp -v /openvino_tokenizers/build/src/libop
 
 find /ovms/bazel-out/k8-*/bin -iname '*.so*' ! -type d ! -name "libgtest.so" ! -name "*params" ! -name "*.hana.*" ! -name "py_generate_pipeline.cpython*" !  -name "lib_node_*" ! -name "libazure-*" ! -name "pyovms.so" ! -path "*/_solib_k8/*" ! -path "*test_python_binding*" ! -name "*libpython*" -exec cp -vP {} /ovms_release/lib/ \;
 # Copy pyovms.so directly as a file (not symlink) to avoid broken Bazel cache paths
-find /ovms/bazel-out/k8-*/bin/src/python/binding -name 'pyovms.so' -type f -exec cp -v {} /ovms_release/lib/ \;
+if ! [[ $debug_bazel_flags == *"_py_off"* ]]; then
+    find /ovms/bazel-out/k8-*/bin/src/python/binding -name 'pyovms.so' -type f -exec cp -v {} /ovms_release/lib/ \;
+fi
 
 # Copy Azure SDK libs directly from the CMake install prefix so that the
 # unversioned .so files are local relative symlinks (not absolute Bazel cache