diff --git a/dev-libs/libsignal-ffi/libsignal-ffi-0.44.0.ebuild b/dev-libs/libsignal-ffi/libsignal-ffi-0.44.0.ebuild
index 431f87aca3..30daaba809 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libsignal-ffi/libsignal-ffi-0.44.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libsignal-ffi/libsignal-ffi-0.44.0.ebuild
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ LICENSE="AGPL-3"
 LICENSE+=" AGPL-3 Apache-2.0 BSD-2 BSD ISC MIT Unicode-DFS-2016"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="debug"
 
 BDEPEND="
 	dev-libs/protobuf