Bug#879798: FTBFS: testsuite fails with dpkg 1.19, patch attached

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 04:49:44AM +0000, Adam Conrad wrote:
> I'd suggest that this commit already makes no-delta backports somewhat
> problematic:
> 
> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/devscripts.git/commit/?id=921696fd6c92c4299accb1e2ef1ae48d13a47b0d

Well, that doesn't stop backports to stretch, which is pretty much what
I'm interested about.

> But ignoring that for a moment, how about this patch instead (tested
> against dpkg 1.18.24ubuntu1 and 1.19.0.4ubuntu1):

That does it.
I committed something very similar now (albeit I haven't tested it, but
why wouldn't it work....)

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