debian/control

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Homepage: https://github.com/jltsiren/gbwt
 Package: libgbwt-dev
 Section: libdevel
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}
 Description: Substring index for paths in a graph
  Graph BWT is an independent implementation of the graph extension (gPBWT) of 
  the positional Burrows-Wheeler transform (PBWT). Its initial purpose is to

debian/rules

@@ -15,15 +15,21 @@ include /usr/share/dpkg/default.mk
 #                    specified by <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>
 
 # for hardening you might like to uncomment this:
-# export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=hardening=+all
+export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS=hardening=+all
+CXXFLAGS:=$(shell dpkg-buildflags --get CXXFLAGS) -DNDEBUG
 
 %:
 	dh $@
 
 override_dh_auto_build:
-	dh_auto_build -- MY_CXX=g++ INC_DIR=/usr/include LIB_DIR=/usr/lib
+	dh_auto_build -- CXXFLAGS="$(CXXFLAGS)" MY_CXX=g++ INC_DIR=/usr/include LIB_DIR=/usr/lib
+
+override_dh_auto_install:
+	dh_auto_install
+	mkdir -p debian/libgbwt-dev/usr/lib/$(shell dpkg-architecture --query DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/
+	cp libgbwt.a debian/libgbwt-dev/usr/lib/$(shell dpkg-architecture --query DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/
 
 override_dh_auto_test:
 ifeq (,$(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
-	dh_auto_test -- MY_CXX=g++ INC_DIR=/usr/include LIB_DIR=/usr/lib
+	dh_auto_test -- CXXFLAGS="$(CXXFLAGS)" MY_CXX=g++ INC_DIR=/usr/include LIB_DIR=/usr/lib
 endif

debian/tests/control

-Tests: run-unit-test
-Depends: @
-Restrictions: allow-stderr
+#Tests: run-unit-test
+#Depends: @
+#Restrictions: allow-stderr