kdDebug() no output

Hi, in the past few days I found some time to revive my work on the libkcal testing, but I noticed that no debug information is printed out by the test programs. I suspect it is because it gets compiled without debugging, but I am not sure, as (if you recall I asked you how to compile the project and you instructed to use the debian/rules file) I don't know where and how to tell the rules file to add/activate debugging. I use something like DEB_MAKE_CHECK_TARGET=testing fakeroot debian/rules build at the moment. I'll appreciate some ideas. Thank you in advance regards