Currently we have a script on each cli that allows you to easily build the package on your own laptop utils/build_deb.sh, but that's not what we use on CI.
So I propose to use the gitlab-ci-local client instead (https://github.com/firecow/gitlab-ci-local), that will build the packages the same way that CI does, and remove that script from all the repos.
This might help also build locally in lima-kilo (though there's some permissions needing figuring out there, as the code is mounted through sshfs).
The command would be something like:
gitlab-ci-local package:deb
That takes care of getting the scirpts from gitlab, running inside containers, extracting artifacts, etc.