diff -ur dpkg-1.15.0/scripts/dpkg-scanpackages.pl dpkg/scripts/dpkg-scanpackages.pl
--- dpkg-1.15.0/scripts/dpkg-scanpackages.pl	2009-03-01 04:15:04.000000000 +0100
+++ dpkg/scripts/dpkg-scanpackages.pl	2009-05-19 14:34:23.316331422 +0200
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@
 
 my $records_written = 0;
 for my $p (sort keys %packages) {
-    if (not defined($overridden{$p})) {
+    if (defined($override) and not defined($overridden{$p})) {
         push(@missingover,$p);
     }
     for my $package (@{$packages{$p}}) {