dict-devil 1.08 has no words

I installed dict-devil 1.08 on Ubuntu Breezy x86. I ran dict to see some of my favorite Ambrose Bierce defnitions. No joy, they did not appear in the dict output. I looked at the .dz files in /usr/share/dictd for this dictionary (devil.dict.dz) and for some other dictionaries. The others had words and definitions. devil.dict.dz has only a brief preamble stating the origin of the file and its conversion date (to dict format I assume.) Again, there are not any words or definitions in the .dz file.

I assume that this means an automated converter failed and generated no output and this silently propagated to the package. However I haven't been able to get a hold of a debian person to check this out.