diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index efb3402..d42c8c0 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ ccid (1.3.6-1) unstable; urgency=low
   * New upstream release
   * debian/control: add Vcs-Svn: and Vcs-Browser: now the packaging is hosted
     on alioth/collab-maint
+  * debian/rules: do not set CFLAGS since dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.17) does it for me
 
- -- Ludovic Rousseau <rousseau@debian.org>  Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:30:41 +0100
+ -- Ludovic Rousseau <rousseau@debian.org>  Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:04:03 +0200
 
 ccid (1.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 68a2989..4ba1973 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -9,13 +9,6 @@ version := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | \
 	sed -ne 's/^Version: *\([0-9]\+:\)*//p')
 
 DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/libccid/
-CFLAGS = -Wall -g
-
-ifneq (,$(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
-	CFLAGS += -O0
-else
-	CFLAGS += -O2
-endif
 
 export DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE  ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
 export DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)
@@ -35,7 +28,7 @@ configure-stamp:
 	dh_testdir
 	# Add here commands to configure the package.
 
-	CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" ./configure $(confflags) \
+	./configure $(confflags) \
 		--prefix=/usr \
 		--enable-twinserial \
 		--enable-udev