Daily builds failing since Jun 29 with "incorrect file attributes detected in initrd tree."

[Daniel Lewart <lewart3@gmail.com>]

Steve, et al,

Daily builds have failed since Jun 29 with:
        "Error: incorrect file attributes detected in initrd tree."
according to:
        https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/20200629-00:07/

The error is detected by debian-installer build/Makefile:
        https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/blob/master/build/Makefile
lines 711-718, shown below.

/dev/console exists, but appears not to be a character special file.

I can't find any changes just before then that could have caused a problem.

Unfortunately, this breaks weekly builds.

I hope someone can fix this.

Thank you,
Daniel Lewart
Urbana, Illinois
---
# Check for lost file attributes
@if [ -e $(TREE)/dev/console ] && \
    ! ls -l $(TREE)/dev/console | grep -q "^c"; then \
        echo "Error: incorrect file attributes detected in initrd tree."; \
        echo "Did you restart a (failed) fakeroot build?"; \
        echo "See fakeroot(1) ('-s' and '-i' options) for additional
information."; \
        exit 1; \
fi