diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ac723bed6..c27eef4f0 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -267,6 +267,8 @@ depends = "$auto, passwd"
 
 [package.metadata.deb.variants.debian-bullseye]
 
+[package.metadata.deb.variants.debian-bookworm]
+
 # Cross compilation variants:
 # Note: we have to specifiy dependencies manually because we don't run cargo-deb
 # on the target platform and so it cannot determine the dependencies correctly
diff --git a/pkg/rules/packages-to-build.yml b/pkg/rules/packages-to-build.yml
index a73c801e6..8c1a8bbde 100644
--- a/pkg/rules/packages-to-build.yml
+++ b/pkg/rules/packages-to-build.yml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ image:
   - "debian:stretch" # debian/9
   - "debian:buster" # debian/10
   - "debian:bullseye" # debian/11
+  - "debian:bookworm" # debian/12
   - "centos:7"
   - "rockylinux:8" # compatible with EOL centos:8
 target:
diff --git a/pkg/rules/packages-to-test.yml b/pkg/rules/packages-to-test.yml
index 35b8182f8..f40dff055 100644
--- a/pkg/rules/packages-to-test.yml
+++ b/pkg/rules/packages-to-test.yml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ image:
   - "debian:stretch" # debian/9
   - "debian:buster" # debian/10
   - "debian:bullseye" # debian/11
+  - "debian:bookworm" # debian/12
   - "centos:7"
   - "rockylinux:8" # compatible with EOL centos:8
 target: