Package: dpkg Version: 1.20.0 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The debian/rules file has a manual rule for the 'configure' file, but this results in the 'configure' file not always being recreated. For example: $ head -1 debian/changelog dpkg (1.20.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium $ echo hello > configure $ chmod 755 configure $ dpkg-buildpackage ... ../configure: 1: hello: not found While that's a silly example, and unlikely to ever cause real issues for Debian since the Debian dpkg source doesn't carry the 'configure' file, the Ubuntu dpkg source *does* unfortunately carry the 'configure' file, and this caused a real regression: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1842947
