Bug#1070986: This is a bug in debian scripts not upstream

[Tom Overlund <tomov@dilacero.org>]

It's actually upstream. I ran the same:

  $ make bindeb-pkg

on the upstream source as I did on the Debian source, and yes, it gave me .deb packages.

Here's the repo for the upstream script that was part of the problem:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master/scripts/package/builddeb

Note the recent changes.

I may be wrong, and it's a Debian patch that is causing the problem, but from what I've seen of the code it's 
probably upstream. I suppose I could download an upstream version of 6.7, and verify it has the same problem, 
but since nobody on the Debian maintainer side seems to care, I won't bother.