diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 64a084a..e4a172e 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -62,6 +62,15 @@ export PIKA_BUILD_ARCH = $(shell cat ../pika-build-arch)
 
 ## === End end of region ===
 
+## overriding dh_auto_configure to add custom configs:
+override_dh_auto_configure:
+	cmake --no-warn-unused-cli -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release -S . -B ./build
+	cmake --build ./build --config Release --target hyprlock -j32
+
+override_dh_install:
+	DESTDIR=debian/tmp cmake --install build
+	dh_install
+
 ## This here will start the build:
 %:
 	dh $@