I have found a workaround.
#command \177 back-screen
On Debian (and most other distros), the BACKSPACE key is mapped to ^? (ASCII DEL). The only way currently for less to bind to it is to use the octal code for ASCII DEL (\177). I think that, at the very least, less should be patched to support ^? in the lesskey file.
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