diff --git a/dev/tasks/linux-packages/apache-arrow/debian/rules b/dev/tasks/linux-packages/apache-arrow/debian/rules
index 02879c4e48fdd..d53b2e377dde9 100755
--- a/dev/tasks/linux-packages/apache-arrow/debian/rules
+++ b/dev/tasks/linux-packages/apache-arrow/debian/rules
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ override_dh_auto_configure:
 	  -DARROW_HDFS=ON						\
 	  -DARROW_JSON=ON						\
 	  -DARROW_MIMALLOC=ON						\
-	  -DARROW_ORC=ON						\
+	  -DARROW_ORC=$${ARROW_ORC}					\
 	  -DARROW_PACKAGE_KIND=deb					\
 	  -DARROW_PARQUET=ON						\
 	  -DARROW_S3=ON							\