In the meantime you can fix it by applying the attached patch to the to the alsa-driver tree. I'd mention the bug-report I swiped it from, but I can't seem to reach the BTS at the moment...
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 04:03:51PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > This is a known problem in alsa, tweaked by a change in debhelper. > Should be fixed before too long.
diff -urN alsa-driver-0.9+0beta4-4.orig/debian/modules-tools.d/rules
alsa-driver-0.9+0beta4-4/debian/modules-tools.d/rules
--- alsa-driver-0.9+0beta4-4.orig/debian/modules-tools.d/rules Thu Apr 19
23:04:21 2001
+++ alsa-driver-0.9+0beta4-4/debian/modules-tools.d/rules Thu May 31
19:14:54 2001
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
dh_fixperms
dh_installdeb
dh_shlibdeps
- dh_gencontrol -- -v`cat debian/MODVERS`
+ dh_gencontrol -- -v`cat debian/MODVERS` -Tdebian/substvars
dh_md5sums
dh_builddeb --destdir=$(MODDIR)
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