Comment 16 for bug 1730627

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