I think this is a bug in liferea. I don't see why you think there's any problem with dpkg-dev and the error message from the build doesn't seem to suggest such a problem.
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected
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can't compile liferea
https://launchpad.net/bugs/77227
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