And here's another variant, from my approx package:
debian/control:
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${F:OCamlRun}, adduser, bzip2, curl
debian/rules:
OCAMLABI = $(shell ocamlc -version)
BYTECODE = $(shell [ -x /usr/bin/ocamlopt ] || echo yes)
OCAMLRUN = $(if $(BYTECODE),ocaml-base-nox-$(OCAMLABI))
...
binary-arch:
...
dh_gencontrol -- -VF:OCamlRun="$(OCAMLRUN)"
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