diff --git a/.forgejo/workflows/release.yml b/.forgejo/workflows/release.yml
index d70ca39..927e64e 100644
--- a/.forgejo/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.forgejo/workflows/release.yml
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ jobs:
           apt-get update
           apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
               build-essential debhelper imagemagick librsvg2-bin \
-              ca-certificates binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu wget
+              ca-certificates binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu
           # For the arm64 cross-build, dpkg-shlibdeps needs to
           # resolve ELF NEEDED entries from the arm64 binaries
           # (libc.so.6, libstdc++.so.6, libdl, libpthread, etc.)
@@ -91,26 +91,58 @@ jobs:
           # We download only what's necessary, not full multi-arch —
           # keeps the runner lean and the network round-trips short.
           if [ "$(POSTIT_RUNTIME)" = "linux-arm64" ]; then
+            # For arm64 cross-build, dpkg-shlibdeps needs to
+            # resolve ELF NEEDED entries from arm64 binaries
+            # (libc.so.6, libstdc++.so.6, libdl, libpthread,
+            # libfontconfig, etc.) by name. We don't install
+            # arm64 on the host (heavy), but dpkg-shlibdeps
+            # accepts -l<dir> for additional library search
+            # paths — like sbuild/pbuilder do internally.
+            #
+            # apt-get install libc6:arm64 failed in early runs:
+            # the arm64 packages weren't listed in the apt
+            # sources configured in the runner image. So we
+            # wget the .deb directly from deb.debian.org and
+            # extract them with dpkg-deb -x into a stage dir.
+            #
+            # We resolve the filename dynamically through
+            # the Packages index instead of hardcoding
+            # versions — that way Debian security uploads
+            # (libc6 glibc patches are frequent) don't break
+            # the workflow.
             mkdir -p /tmp/arm64-stage
-            cd /tmp/arm64-stage
-            # Bookworm (Debian 12 — matches the runner image base).
-            BASE=https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main
-            for pkg in \
-                "$BASE/g/glibc/libc6_2.36-9+deb12u11_arm64.deb" \
-                "$BASE/g/gcc-12/libstdc++6_12.2.0-14+deb12u1_arm64.deb" \
-                "$BASE/f/fontconfig/libfontconfig1_2.14.1-4_arm64.deb" \
-                "$BASE/f/freetype/libfreetype6_2.12.1+dfsg-5+deb12u4_arm64.deb" \
-                "$BASE/g/gtk+3.0/libgtk-3-0_3.24.38-2~deb12u3_arm64.deb"; do
-              fname=$(basename "$pkg")
-              if [ ! -f "$fname" ] && ! wget -q "$pkg" -O "$fname"; then
-                echo "::error::Failed to download $pkg"
+            set -e
+            for src in libc6 libstdc++6 libfontconfig1 \
+                       libfreetype6 libgtk-3-0; do
+              # Look up the .deb URL from the apt index for
+              # the architecture-less library source name.
+              # apt-get download would do this for free if
+              # arm64 were installed — but it isn't, so we
+              # query via the Packages.gz on deb.debian.org.
+              url=$(wget -qO- \
+                "https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/arm64/${src}/download" \
+                2>/dev/null \
+                | grep -oE 'http[s]?://[^"]*'"${src}"'_[^"]*arm64\.deb' \
+                | head -1)
+              if [ -z "$url" ]; then
+                echo "::error::Could not resolve .deb URL for $src"
                 exit 1
               fi
-              dpkg-deb -x "$fname" /tmp/arm64-stage/
+              echo "  --> downloading $url"
+              if ! wget -q "$url" -O "/tmp/${src}.deb"; then
+                echo "::error::wget failed for $url"
+                exit 1
+              fi
+              dpkg-deb -x "/tmp/${src}.deb" /tmp/arm64-stage/
+              rm -f "/tmp/${src}.deb"
             done
-            ls /tmp/arm64-stage/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ | head -10
-            echo "  arm64 stage ready at /tmp/arm64-stage/"
-            cd "${{GITHUB_WORKSPACE:-/}}"
+            ls /tmp/arm64-stage/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null | head -3 || true
+            ls /tmp/arm64-stage/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/ 2>/dev/null | head -3 || true
+            echo "  --> arm64 stage ready at /tmp/arm64-stage/"
+          fi
+              # Extract the freshly downloaded .deb into the
+              # stage dir.
+              ls ${src}_*.deb
           fi
           # binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu provides aarch64-linux-gnu-objdump,
           # which dh_makeshlibs needs to read the ELF symbol table of