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

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

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Hi!

On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 10:27:29 +0000, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Package: src:oxygen-icons5,dpkg-dev,tar
> Tags: ftbfs

> I tried to build "oxygen-icons5" in buster but it failed:

> This happens randomly. Sometimes it fails, sometimes it does not. It
> happens in other packages as well, but it happens particularly often
> with oxygen-icons5, as shown in my build history:

> I'm using sbuild + schroot + eatmydata + overlayfs on 1-XS instances
> from Scaleway.

Hmm, can you reproduce those results on a system not using overlayfs?
That's my immediate suspect here, as that has already produced in the
past misbehavior in combination with dpkg when it comes to POSIX
compliance and expected sane filesystem behavior.

Thanks,
Guillem