Bug#1071317: intel-mkl: FTBFS: error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (No such file or directory)

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:intel-mkl
Version: 2020.4.304-4
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs

Dear maintainer:

During a rebuild of all packages in unstable, your package failed to build:

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[...]
  debian/rules binary
dh binary
    dh_update_autotools_config
    dh_autoreconf
    debian/rules override_dh_auto_configure
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
../intel-mkl_2020.4.304.orig.tar.gz: OK
rpm --rebuilddb
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (No such file or directory)
make[1]: *** [debian/rules:35: extract-rpms] Error 255
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
make: *** [debian/rules:27: binary] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2
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The above is just how the build ends and not necessarily the most relevant part.
If required, the full build log is available here:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/202405/

About the archive rebuild: The build was made on virtual machines
of type m6a.large and r6a.large from AWS, using sbuild and a
reduced chroot with only build-essential packages.

If you could not reproduce the bug please contact me privately, as I
am willing to provide ssh access to a virtual machine where the bug is
fully reproducible.

If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use
reassign and affects, so that this is still visible in the BTS web
page for this package.

Thanks.