I am afraid there is no other way but somebody could have some other ideas.
I am not sure if this will going to work but you can try to change the logging levels for your classes programmatically. A few links with examples of that:
http://robertmaldon.blogspot.com/2007/09/programmatically-configuring-log4j-and.html
http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/238
If this works, then you can expose the java method via scripting, which could be wrapped with a workflow. The you can ask your customers just to run a workflow that change only the debug level for your classes.