diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 1b2b71da5f..889c82137e 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Priority: optional
 Maintainer: GBIF Development Team <helpdesk@gbif.org>
 Uploaders: GBIF Development Team <helpdesk@gbif.org>
 Build-Depends:
- debhelper (>= 11), maven, git, openjdk-8-jdk
+ debhelper (>= 11), maven, git, curl
 Standards-Version: 4.2.1
 Homepage: https://github.com/gbif/ipt
 Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/gbif/ipt
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 7ea8fb0f9d..d050ceb2a2 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -11,27 +11,15 @@
 
 # $(CURDIR) is the repository directory
 
-M2_REPO = $(CURDIR)/debian/maven-repo-local
 CURVERSION = $(shell grep -oPm2 "(?<=<version>)[^<]+" "pom.xml" | tail -1)
-BUILDDATE = $(shell date -u +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)
-# Previously:
-# CURVERSION = $(shell mvn -Dmaven.repo.local=$(M2_REPO) -q -Dexec.executable=echo -Dexec.args='$${project.version}' --non-recursive exec:exec)-r$(shell git rev-parse HEAD | cut -c1-7)
-# but we don't have the git revision in a debian build from sources without .git directory
 
 %:
 	dh $@
 
 override_dh_auto_build:
-ifeq ($(filter nobuildjar,$(DEB_BUILD_PROFILES)),)
-# This allows to skip the maven jar build (for instance, if its builded by another jenkins job)
-# for instance with debuild -us -uc -b --build-profiles=nobuildjar
-	mvn -Dmaven.repo.local=$(M2_REPO) -P release install -DskipTests -Dmaven.buildNumber.revisionOnScmFailure=$(BUILDDATE)
-endif
-
-
-override_dh_auto_install:
-#	install don't allow to rename files (like wars), so we copy here the file we want to install with the package
-	cp $(CURDIR)/target/ipt-$(CURVERSION)-*.war $(CURDIR)/target/ipt.war
+	dh_auto_build
+	mkdir -p $(CURDIR)/target
+	curl -o $(CURDIR)/target/ipt.war https://repository.gbif.org/content/groups/gbif/org/gbif/ipt/$(CURVERSION)/ipt-$(CURVERSION).war
 
 override_dh_fixperms:
 	dh_fixperms
@@ -39,6 +27,7 @@ override_dh_fixperms:
 #	chmod 4755 debian/foo/opt/ipt/foo.jar
 #	Also we use postinstall for this
 
+
 #override_dh_install:
 #	dh_install # calls default *.install and *.dirs installation
 #	man install