It appears that different parts of the debian build chain utilize DEB_BUILD_PROFILES vs DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. From what I can tell, the safest thing to do is to set them both.
In particular, I needed to use DEB_BUILD_PROFILES to appease the dependency checking mechanism. DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS was necessary to suppress dh_auto_test.
It appears that different parts of the debian build chain utilize DEB_BUILD_PROFILES vs DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. From what I can tell, the safest thing to do is to set them both.
In particular, I needed to use
DEB_BUILD_PROFILESto appease the dependency checking mechanism.DEB_BUILD_OPTIONSwas necessary to suppressdh_auto_test.