diff --git a/debian/feedbackd.udev b/data/90-feedbackd.rules
similarity index 100%
rename from debian/feedbackd.udev
rename to data/90-feedbackd.rules
diff --git a/data/meson.build b/data/meson.build
index 0c8590f..f9b78e6 100644
--- a/data/meson.build
+++ b/data/meson.build
@@ -68,4 +68,8 @@ if json_glib_validate.found()
 		command: [json_glib_validate.full_path()] + jsons)
 endif
 
+if get_option('udev')
+  install_data('90-feedbackd.rules', install_dir: udevdir)
+endif
+
 endif # daemon
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 1743808..1efc50f 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Build-Depends:
  meson,
  pkg-config,
  python3-docutils <!nodoc>,
+ systemd-dev,
  umockdev,
  valac,
 Standards-Version: 4.6.2
diff --git a/debian/feedbackd.install b/debian/feedbackd.install
index 732f8bd..fcfbd17 100644
--- a/debian/feedbackd.install
+++ b/debian/feedbackd.install
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-/usr/bin/
-/usr/libexec/
-/usr/share/dbus-1/
-/usr/share/feedbackd/
+usr/bin/
+usr/lib/udev/
+usr/libexec/
+usr/share/dbus-1/
+usr/share/feedbackd/
diff --git a/debian/feedbackd.postinst b/debian/feedbackd.postinst
index b6a2dbc..aec183b 100644
--- a/debian/feedbackd.postinst
+++ b/debian/feedbackd.postinst
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ case "$1" in
         if ! getent group feedbackd >/dev/null; then
             addgroup --quiet --system feedbackd
         fi
+
+        # we ship udev rules, so trigger an update
+        udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=leds --action=change || true
     ;;
 
     abort-upgrade|abort-remove|abort-deconfigure)
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 0b3673d..1d70ac0 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all
 
-CONFIGURE_OPTS=--wrap-mode=default
+CONFIGURE_OPTS=--wrap-mode=default -Dudev=true
 
 ifneq (,$(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
   CONFIGURE_OPTS += -Dtests=false
@@ -30,10 +30,6 @@ endif
 override_dh_auto_configure:
 	dh_auto_configure -- $(CONFIGURE_OPTS)
 
-override_dh_installudev:
-	# Make sure all the symlink rules in 60 ran:
-	dh_installudev --priority=90
-
 override_dh_auto_test:
 ifeq (,$(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
 	dbus-run-session ninja -C _build test
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 1801045..4df9c65 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 project('feedbackd', 'c',
           version : '0.4.0',
           license : 'LGPLv3+',
-    meson_version : '>= 0.56.0',
+    meson_version : '>= 1.0.0',
   default_options : [
     'warning_level=1',
     'buildtype=debugoptimized',
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ project('feedbackd', 'c',
 gio            = dependency('gio-2.0', version: '>=2.50.0')
 gio_unix       = dependency('gio-unix-2.0', version: '>=2.50.0')
 glib           = dependency('glib-2.0', version: '>=2.50.0')
+udev           = dependency('udev', required: false)
 if get_option('daemon')
   gobject        = dependency('gobject-2.0', version: '>=2.50.0')
   gmobile        = dependency('gmobile',
@@ -40,6 +41,11 @@ libexecdir = join_paths(prefix, get_option('libexecdir'))
 typelibdir = join_paths(prefix, join_paths(libdir, 'girepository-1.0'))
 vapidir = join_paths(prefix, join_paths(datadir, 'vala', 'vapi'))
 feedbackd_theme_dir = join_paths(datadir, 'feedbackd', 'themes')
+if udev.found() and get_option('daemon')
+  udevdir = udev.get_variable('udevdir') / 'rules.d'
+else
+  udevdir = prefix / 'lib' / 'udev' / 'rules.d'
+endif
 
 run_data = configuration_data()
 run_data.set('ABS_BUILDDIR', meson.current_build_dir())
@@ -127,6 +133,7 @@ summary = [
         'feedbackd @0@'.format(meson.project_version()),
         '',
 	'         Daemon: @0@'.format(get_option('daemon')),
+	'     Udev rules: @0@'.format(get_option('udev')),
         '  Documentation: @0@'.format(get_option('gtk_doc')),
         '   Manual pages: @0@'.format(get_option('man')),
         '  Introspection: @0@'.format(introspection),
diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index 59e2281..33a5071 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 option('introspection', type: 'feature', value: 'auto')
 option('vapi', type: 'boolean', value: true)
 
+option('udev',
+       type: 'boolean', value: true,
+       description: 'Whether to install the udev rules')
 option('daemon',
        type: 'boolean', value: true,
        description: 'Whether to build the daemon')