diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 5d083797..49dd5fa3 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ ifeq (${RUN_TEST},yes)
 ARCH_LLVM_TEST_OK := i386 amd64
 
 override_dh_auto_test:
-
+    echo "Running tests: $(RUN_TEST)"
 # LLVM tests
 ifneq (,$(findstring $(DEB_HOST_ARCH),$(ARCH_LLVM_TEST_OK)))
 # logs the output to check-llvm_build_log.txt for validation through autopkgtest