Comment 7 for bug 1891686

Ah, sorry by DEB_BUILD_OPTS I thought you meant DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS as listed in the changelog and this is what I've tested:

--- google-guest-agent-20200617.00/debian/rules 2020-10-02 22:47:33.000000000 +0000
+++ google-guest-agent-20200617.00/debian/rules 2020-10-22 15:29:37.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f

+# check if nocheck can be readded
+DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS := $(filter-out nocheck,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))
+
 %:

I guess we don't have to care about DEB_BUILD_OPTS:
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-rules-uses-deb-build-opts.html