diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 659b41b..cfd891a 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt (0.2.0-0ubuntu2) kinetic; urgency=medium
 
   * Removed redundant "Repository-Browser" field from d/upstream/metadata.
+  * Removed obsolete "-Wl,--as-needed" linker flag.
 
  -- Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3@gmail.com>  Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:40:41 -0500
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index f23631d..7cdbb0c 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
 
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