On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 07:27:22PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 20:14:41 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > > FWIW, the package builds fine for me (amd64 sid cowbuilder). > > > > The failures seem to be related to these log entries: > > > > flAbsPath on /var/lib/apt/var/lib/dpkg/status failed - realpath (2: No > > such file or directory) > > Could not open file - open (2: No such file or directory) > > Problem opening > > The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > > > which suggests this is #833656. > > Ack, that was my first idea as well after reading the logs. > But still, the tests pass for me when I build the package (as well as > the autopkgtests).
I can reproduce it with libapt-pkg5.0_1.3~rc1, and it goes away with libapt-pkg5.0_1.3~rc2. The build logs have 1.3~rc1. (Looks like they may be testing stretch not sid.) Maybe this change in ~rc2? * default to Dir=/ in dpkg/status file finding magic -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org