Gunnar seems to have been a little sleepy yesterday. For his patch to work you also need to manually create debian/compat with the single line:
--snip-- 4 --snap-- -- Rodrigo Gallardo GPG-Fingerprint: 7C81 E60C 442E 8FBC D975 2F49 0199 8318 ADC9 BC28
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