Hi, It seems the best (only?) way to override LDFLAGS with debhelper 7 is a LDFLAGS export at the top of debian/rules file. However, there's some packages using another method: override_dh_auto_configure: dh_auto_configure -- LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS) -Wl,--as-needed" NOTE: this method doesn't work ! Should we track this packaging error and fill bug against them ? Cheers, Fathi