diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 6d1bf6bd..49516ff1 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ cache:
  
 env:
     global:
-      # Environment variables for 
+      # Environment variables for packaging
       - PRODUCT=flameshot
       - VERSION=0.6.0
       - RELEASE=1
@@ -33,10 +33,12 @@ matrix:
           # 28
           env: OS=fedora DIST=28 EXTEN=rpm
           services: docker
-        - os: linux
-          # 29
-          env: OS=fedora DIST=29 EXTEN=rpm
-          services: docker
+        # cups-libs-2.2.8-6 cannot be found, correct is cups-libs-2.2.8-7,
+        # maybe it was caused by upstream docker images, so disable temporarily.
+        # - os: linux
+        #   # 29
+        #   env: OS=fedora DIST=29 EXTEN=rpm
+        #   services: docker
         - os: linux
           # 16.04 LTS
           env: OS=ubuntu DIST=xenial EXTEN=deb
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 5888922e..8314b358 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -5,19 +5,23 @@
 
 
 # see FEATURE AREAS in dpkg-buildflags(1)
-#export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all
+export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all
 
 # see ENVIRONMENT in dpkg-buildflags(1)
 # package maintainers to append CFLAGS
 #export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND  = -Wall -pedantic
 # package maintainers to append LDFLAGS
-#export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -Wl,--as-needed
+export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -Wl,--as-needed
 
 export QT_SELECT := 5
 
 %:
 	dh $@ 
 
+override_dh_auto_configure:
+	# The existence of an empty .git directory triggers syncqt.
+	mkdir .git || true
+	dh_auto_configure -- CONFIG+=packaging CONFIG-=debug CONFIG+=release
 
 # dh_make generated override targets
 # This is example for Cmake (See https://bugs.debian.org/641051 )