diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index bf2d4fe..482f082 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian Sugar Team <pkg-sugar-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>,
-Build-Depends: cdbs,
+Build-Depends:
  debhelper,
- dh-python,
+ dh-sequence-python3,
  python3,
  python3-sugar3,
  unzip
diff --git a/debian/docs b/debian/docs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..edc0071
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/docs
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+NEWS
diff --git a/debian/install b/debian/install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dd222db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/install
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+usr/share
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 5394fc3..5f05407 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -1,21 +1,25 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
 
-include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/python-sugar.mk
-include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
+include /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk
 
-pkg = $(DEB_SOURCE_PACKAGE)
+PKG = $(DEB_SOURCE)
 
-# Avoid install icons (shipped with sugar-*-icon-theme)
-install/$(pkg)::
-	rm -rf $(cdbs_curdestdir)usr/share/icons
+export PYBUILD_SYSTEM = custom
+export PYBUILD_INSTALL_ARGS = HOME=debian/fakehome \
+ && mkdir --parents "$$HOME" \
+ && /usr/bin/python3 setup.py install --destdir debian/tmp \
+ && rm -rf "$$HOME"
 
+# omit git hint files
+# omit icons (shipped with sugar-*-icon-theme)
+%:
+	dh $@ --buildsystem=pybuild -X.git -Xusr/share/icons
+
+execute_after_dh_install:
 # Fix broken paths in desktop file
 #  * TODO: drop when fixed in sugar-toolkit-gtk3
-binary-fixup/$(pkg)::
-	find $(cdbs_curdestdir)/usr/share -type f -name '*.desktop' \
+	find debian/*/usr/share -type f -name '*.desktop' \
 		-execdir perl -pi -e 's,^\S+\s*=\s*\K\S*(?=/usr/share),,g' '{}' ';'
-
 # Ensure proper hash-bang in Python script (Python Policy 0.9 §3.1)
-binary-fixup/$(pkg)::
-	perl -pi -e 's,^#! ?/usr/bin/(env )?python[[:print:]]*$$,#!/usr/bin/$(strip $(cdbs_curpythonruntime)),' \
-		$(cdbs_curdestdir)/usr/share/sugar/activities/*/setup.py
+	perl -pi -e 's,^#! ?/usr/bin/(env )?python[[:print:]]*$$,#!/usr/bin/python3,' \
+		debian/*/usr/share/sugar/activities/*/setup.py