diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 5463d3b..f6ccf28 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
   * Use canonical URLs for Vcs-* fields, switch to https.
   * Drop --disable-silent-rules from debian/rules. This is now handled by dh
     directly depending on whether the DH_QUIET environment variable is set.
+  * Use DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND instead of LDFLAGS to set --as-needed.
 
  -- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>  Thu, 26 May 2016 05:41:36 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index b1f80f0..baa511d 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 %:
 	dh $@ --with autoreconf
 
-export LDFLAGS := $(shell dpkg-buildflags --get LDFLAGS) -Wl,--as-needed
+export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND := -Wl,--as-needed
 
 override_dh_link:
 	dh_link -plibatasmart-dev lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/$$(basename $$(readlink debian/tmp/usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/libatasmart.so)) usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/libatasmart.so