diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index b371431..98af468 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 # package maintainers to append CFLAGS
 export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND  = -Wall -pedantic
 # package maintainers to append LDFLAGS
-export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,defs
+export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -Wl,-z,defs
 
 # Save Berkeley DB used for building the package
 BDB_VERSION ?= $(shell LC_ALL=C dpkg-query -l 'libdb[45].[0-9]-dev' | grep ^ii | sed -e 's|.*\s\libdb\([45]\.[0-9]\)-dev\s.*|\1|')