Package: dpkg-dev Followup-For: Bug #872381 Hello again. My last message was confusing.
I am suggesting to improve commit f1175056 with 0001-build-spare-an-unneeded-subst-handling-in-pkg-info.m.patch. I have only quoted 0001-scripts-mk-stop-hard-coding-dpkg_datadir.patch for context. Please ignore it.