Thanks, Colin! I prepared a new dpkg upload with this fix and the necessary changes for https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianMaintainerField. Will upload after herd-4 freeze.
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt -- does not interpret X[SBC]-* fields when building binary control files https://launchpad.net/bugs/84850 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs