In a debian/rules file, I have the variable export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt but dpkg-buildflags --get CFLAGS returns -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security What am I doing wrong? btw, the makefile in question has "-02" set in CFLAGS. Do I need to patch it? I'm assuming no, but setting DEB_CFLAGS_STRIP = -02 doesn't seem to work either? What am I doing wrong? Thanks, --Shawn