problems using debstd

[phil@bolthole.com (Philip Brown)]

I'm trying to take over someone else's package (although its my own
software! :-)  and I'm trying to use the "latest" official tools.

Part of that would seem to be "debstd".

This is for a multi-binary package.
It seems to work great for the sub-packages. It makes a .deb file for them.
Then it keeps going to

** Main Package kdrill

and gets all the way down to
-- Checking Symlinks

and then does NOT make a package for "kdrill"??

This seems to be somewhat related to the fact that it automatically
generates

debian/tmp/subpkg/DEBIAN/control

and 

debian/tmp/DEBIAN

but it does NOT generate

debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control

Any suggestions?
Should I just dump my top-level control file to you folks?