diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 64a084a..f4bc35c 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -5,63 +5,25 @@
 export DH_VERBOSE = 1
 export PIKA_BUILD_ARCH = $(shell cat ../pika-build-arch)
 
-## === the chain of command ===
-## debuild runs a chain of dh functions in the following order:
-## dh_testdir
-## dh_clean
-## dh_auto_clean
-## dh_update_autotools_config
-## dh_autoreconf
-## dh_auto_configure
-## dh_prep
-## dh_build
-## dh_auto_build
-## dh_install
-## dh_auto_install
-## dh_installdocs
-## dh_installchangelogs
-## dh_perl
-## dh_link
-## dh_strip_nondeterminism
-## dh_compress
-## dh_fixperms
-## dh_missing
-## dh_dwz
-## dh_strip
-## dh_makeshlibs
-## dh_shlibdeps
-## dh_installdeb
-## dh_gencontrol
-## but you are most likely to only need to override the following:
-## dh_clean
-## dh_auto_configure
-## dh_build
-## dh_install
+export VENDORED ?= 1
+CLEAN ?= 1
 
-## === End end of region ===
-
-## === overriding dh functions ===
-## by default all dh functions will run a specific command based on the build system selected by "dh $@"
-## if you have a makefile that does everything you need this is fine,
-## but most likely you have no MakeFile and you want to add your own commands
-## Note : overrides must be places above %:
-## So here's a few examples:
-
-## overriding dh_clean to make it not delete rust vendor files:
-#override_dh_clean:
-#	echo "disabled"
-
-## overriding dh_auto_configure to add custom configs:
-#override_dh_auto_configure:
-#		$(srcdir)/configure -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_DATADIR=/usr/share -DCMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -DBUILD_PLUGIN=OFF
-
-## overriding dh_install to install files to a package:
-#override_dh_auto_configure:
-#		mkdir -p debian/pikman/usr/bin
-#		cp pikman debian/pikman/usr/bin/
-
-## === End end of region ===
-
-## This here will start the build:
 %:
 	dh $@
+
+override_dh_auto_build:
+	env CARGO_HOME="$$(pwd)/target/cargo" \
+	dh_auto_build
+
+override_dh_auto_clean:
+ifeq ($(CLEAN),1)
+	make clean
+endif
+ifeq ($(VENDORED),1)
+	if ! ischroot; then \
+		make vendor; \
+	fi
+endif
+
+override_dh_auto_install:
+	dh_auto_install -- prefix=/usr
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