diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index b919d9e..3686428 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Build-Depends: cython3 (>= 0.27.1),
Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/qiskit-terra
Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/qiskit-terra.git
Homepage: https://qiskit.org/
-Standards-Version: 4.6.0
+Standards-Version: 4.6.2
Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-python
Rules-Requires-Root: no
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index b228731..777fa9b 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
export DH_VERBOSE = 1
export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all
export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -Wall -pedantic
-export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -Wl,--as-needed
export PYBUILD_TEST_PYTEST=1
# Add manually qiskit/schemas/examples to the build dir, removing them