diff --git a/user/mariadb/APKBUILD b/user/mariadb/APKBUILD
index e5e9c2f834ef2e3c4de2ecd66a56b4aa29853d09..9c80ecff0369787e8fb08232ec886749549527e0 100644
--- a/user/mariadb/APKBUILD
+++ b/user/mariadb/APKBUILD
@@ -7,14 +7,18 @@ pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="Open source database server"
 url="https://mariadb.org/"
 arch="all"
+options="suid"	# required for pam_auth plugin, which is needed for
+		# mysql_install_db to work
+options="$options !dbg"  # abuild can't handle splitting -dbg with the way
+                         # this build's package() function works.
 license="GPL-2.0-only"
 pkgusers="mysql"
 pkggroups="mysql"
 depends="$pkgname-common"
 depends_dev="openssl-dev zlib-dev"
 makedepends="$depends_dev bison cmake curl-dev libaio-dev libarchive-dev
-	libedit-dev libevent-dev libexecinfo-dev libxml2-dev numactl-dev
-	ncurses-dev linux-pam-dev pcre-dev xz-dev"
+	libedit-dev libevent-dev libexecinfo-dev libxml2-dev ncurses-dev
+	linux-pam-dev pcre-dev xz-dev"
 _mytopdeps="perl perl-dbi perl-dbd-mysql perl-getopt-long perl-socket
 	perl-term-readkey"
 subpackages="$pkgname-client $pkgname-server $pkgname-libs $pkgname-embedded
@@ -25,9 +29,6 @@ source="https://downloads.mariadb.org/interstitial/mariadb-$pkgver/source/mariad
 	mariadb-server.limits
 	"
 
-options="suid"	# required for pam_auth plugin, which is needed for
-		# mysql_install_db to work
-
 build() {
 	if [ "$CBUILD" != "$CHOST" ]; then
 		CMAKE_CROSSOPTS="-DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Linux -DCMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_NAME=Linux"