Actually, I think I was wrong. The problem is not with the use of dpkg-statoverride as advised in README.Debian. It was due to the way I was starting xbuffy. I was doing so at start-up for my WM (spectrwm). If I start it from a terminal the LED does work with the dpkg-statoverride method.
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