diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cfedbca..20e8098 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ afford to.
 | | Status | Docker | Doesn't need --privileged | Doesn't need /dev/kvm | Backend |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
 | **Arch Linux** | ✔️ supported | ❌ | - | ✔️ | [archlinux-repro](https://github.com/archlinux/archlinux-repro) |
-| **Debian** | 🚀 experimental | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | [debrebuild.pl](https://salsa.debian.org/debian/devscripts/-/blob/master/scripts/debrebuild.pl) |
+| **Debian** | 🚀 experimental | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | [debrebuild.py](https://github.com/fepitre/debrebuild) |
 | **Tails** | 🚀 experimental | ❌ | - | ❌ | [docs](https://tails.boum.org/contribute/build/) ([script](worker/rebuilder-tails.sh)) |
 | **Alpine** | ✨ planned | - | - | - | - |
 
diff --git a/worker/Dockerfile.debian b/worker/Dockerfile.debian
index 0baa05d..23c0fea 100644
--- a/worker/Dockerfile.debian
+++ b/worker/Dockerfile.debian
@@ -10,7 +10,14 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/buildkit \
     cp -v /var/cache/buildkit/debian/target/release/rebuilderd-worker /
 
 FROM debian:bullseye
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libssl-dev devscripts sbuild mmdebstrap
+RUN apt-get update && apt install -y libssl-dev git mmdebstrap \
+    python3-apt python3-dateutil python3-requests python3-rstr python3-setuptools python3-httpx python3-tenacity \
+    debian-keyring debian-archive-keyring debian-ports-archive-keyring
+# this is a temporary solution
+# copied from https://github.com/fepitre/package-rebuilder/blob/fc38df2f6e81ae6307e47cf515caa3e92ec8f5a4/rebuilder.Dockerfile
+RUN git clone https://salsa.debian.org/python-debian-team/python-debian /opt/python-debian
+RUN cd /opt/python-debian && git checkout e28d7a5729b187cfd0ec95da25030224cd10021a && python3 setup.py build install
+RUN git clone --depth=1 'https://github.com/fepitre/debrebuild' /debrebuild
 COPY --from=0 \
     /usr/src/rebuilderd/worker/rebuilder-debian.sh \
     /usr/local/libexec/rebuilderd/
diff --git a/worker/rebuilder-debian.sh b/worker/rebuilder-debian.sh
index c9b4f8b..7946dad 100755
--- a/worker/rebuilder-debian.sh
+++ b/worker/rebuilder-debian.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 set -xe
-debrebuild --buildresult="${REBUILDERD_OUTDIR}" --builder=mmdebstrap -- "${1}"
+# debrebuild.py needs to be run from the repo
+/debrebuild/debrebuild.py --output="${REBUILDERD_OUTDIR}" --builder=mmdebstrap -- "${1}"