Bug#926387: oxygen-icons5: FTBFS randomly (Directory renamed before its status could be extracted)

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Control: reassign -1 fuse-overlayfs

[ Please check the bug report for the original problem. ]

Hi!

On Tue, 2019-04-09 at 10:02:25 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Hmm, I said:
> > Is dpkg in buster calling tar with any options that makes this
> > behaviour to happen more easily? Is tar in buster more prone to this
> > failure when using overlayfs?
> 
> By looking at my build logs I see that this is not really related to
> buster, but related to the fact that I started to use virtual machines
> from Scaleway. Apparently this is really easy to happen there.
> 
> Still, I would like to know if there is some kind of workaround other
> than stopping using overlayfs.

I don't really know. I just know that overlayfs has caused compliance
problems in the past, so I'd recommend avoiding it TBH.

I'm thus reassigning.

Thanks,
Guillem