Public bug reported:

[ SRU Justification ]
ubuntu-release-upgrades was unintentionally relying on a debhelper 
bug/misfeature where mixing and matching dh(1) and explicit make targets would 
lead "dh binary" to call a binary-indep target in debian/rules, despite no 
dependency being declared.  This dh(1) misfeature went away when arch/indep 
handling was reworked in debhelper 12.5, and ubuntu-release-upgrader's 
binary-indep target (which generated the release-upgrader tarball) hasn't been 
called since.

[ Test Case ]
1) Make sure the release-upgrader tarball is built, included in .changes, and 
published to the archive.
2) debdiff .deb binaries from this upload and the last to ensure nothing else 
has gone amiss.

[ Regression Potential ]
Fairly low.  This is just fixing some broken assumptions about makefiles and 
debhelper to deterministically return us to the situation we were arriving at 
by accident before.

[ Other Info ]
In doing this, and testing interaction between arch and indep targets and dh(1) 
itself, I noted that there were a few more small fixes to be made which are 
no-ops in the current package, but are ticking time-bombs if the package ever 
grows a non-arch-all package, so I'm including those fixes too.

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Adam Conrad (adconrad)
         Status: Fix Committed

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Eoan)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Adam Conrad (adconrad)
         Status: New

** Also affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Eoan)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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  [SRU] ubuntu-release-upgrader no longer produces tarballs

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