diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index e26730e..40a84f4 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -1,35 +1,40 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
 
 export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all
 
 # In case there's something wrong during cython generation, you may want to enable this
 #export CASS_DRIVER_NO_CYTHON=1
 
 # Enable parallel build
 export CASS_DRIVER_BUILD_CONCURRENCY=$(shell nproc)
 
 export PYBUILD_TEST_NOSE=1
 # Requires python3-ccmlib (Cassandra Cluster Manager) which is not available in the archive
 PYBUILD_TEST_ARGS :=
 export PYBUILD_TEST_ARGS
 # For some reasons evenlet.monkey_patch is not available in dbg version of the package
 # Careful: Nose --ignore-files is basically not working correctly, adding folders before the file
 # never worked, no matter how many .* I used...
 export PYBUILD_TEST_ARGS_python3-dbg=$(PYBUILD_TEST_ARGS) --ignore-files="test_eventletreactor\.py"
 
 %:
 	dh $@ --with python3 --buildsystem=pybuild
 
 override_dh_auto_clean:
 	dh_auto_clean
 	rm -rf build/ cassandra_driver.egg-info/
 	# Do not delete cmurmur3.c because we don't have proper Python extension
 	# so it cannot be regenerated with cython
 	find cassandra -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.c' ! -name 'cmurmur3.c' -delete
 
+override_dh_auto_test:
+ifeq ($(filter nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_PROFILES)),)
+	dh_auto_test
+endif
+
 override_dh_auto_install:
 	dh_auto_install
 	rm -rf debian/python*-dbg/usr/lib/python*/dist-packages/cassandra/numpyFlags.h
 
 override_dh_installdocs:
 	dh_installdocs README.rst