The dpkg domain consists only of C sources, so there's no need anymore for the Perl specific _g keyword.
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ subdir = po
top_builddir = ..
# These options get passed to xgettext.
-XGETTEXT_OPTIONS = --keyword=_ --keyword=N_ --keyword=_g --from-code=UTF-8
+XGETTEXT_OPTIONS = --keyword=_ --keyword=N_ --from-code=UTF-8
MSGMERGE_OPTIONS = --previous