Pierre Habouzit writes ("Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)"):
> What a brilliant success for your new upload !
> http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status/package.php?p=dpkg
This was due to a buggy translation update (predating my efforts, but
not yet uploaded by anyone). It seems that I used a lenny chroot
instead of a sid one, and you get the FTBFS on sid only.
This will be fixed shortly.
Ian.