I can confirm that the proposed package fixes the problem I reported
(with sample ubuntu-minimal_1.412_amd64.deb being from bionic's
repositories):
$ dpkg-deb -W ./ubuntu-minimal_1.412_amd64.deb
ubuntu-minimal 1.412
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
$ apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
Installed: 1.17.5ubuntu5.8
Candidate: 1.17.5ubuntu5.8
Version table:
*** 1.17.5ubuntu5.8 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.17.5ubuntu5.7 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
1.17.5ubuntu5.6 0
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64
Packages
1.17.5ubuntu5 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
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