diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 3b7418e..38ab8ce 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -6,3 +6,6 @@ export PYBUILD_NAME=openwebrx
 
 override_dh_strip_nondeterminism:
 	dh_strip_nondeterminism -X.png
+
+override_dh_builddeb:
+	dh_builddeb -- -Zxz
diff --git a/debian/source/options b/debian/source/options
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bd80295
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/source/options
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Use xz instead of zstd
+compression = "xz"