Comment 5 for bug 940410

The "fix" was to drop the patch, which I find something between disrespectful and wrong. AFAIUI, it did not break normal operation, but rather an optional functionality that does work in some cases, and for which there is an easy workaround (run lintian manually). Moreover, I'm using this functionality in precise and earlier on every upload.

I currently do not have the time to look into it immediately, but I'm assigning the issue to me so I don't forget about it.