diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 4768e41..7e2fce8 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ lxqt-panel (1.1.0-0ubuntu2~ppa1) jammy; urgency=medium
     will ever throw at us with this package for the rest of forever.
   * Removed redundant "Repository-Browser" field from d/upstream/metadata.
   * Bumped Standards-Version to 4.6.1, no changes necessary.
+  * Removed obsolete "-Wl,--as-needed" linker flag.
 
  -- Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3@gmail.com>  Wed, 06 Jul 2022 14:25:33 -0500
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index ccd9c70..b8fe772 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 # export DH_VERBOSE=1
 
 export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
-export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -Wl,--as-needed
 export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all
 
 include /usr/share/dpkg/architecture.mk