Howdy @morb welcome to the forums!
And thanks @jfinstrom for tagging me on the question.
I agree that the FreePBX packaging for Debian 12 can be improved. Specifically, the build path for v17 is something that I am actively looking into helping out with, and this effort fits in nicely with #2 of my “Top 5 items” mentioned in my Asterisk Blog post from last week:
- Distribute current OS packages into as many GNU/Linux distributions as possible.
At this point, I don’t have a fix to contribute, as I am still in the analysis and identification stage on this issue (is there an issue on GitHub for this feature request ? :hmm: 
will try to post back on this thread soon…)