Bug#823288: gnutls28: FTBFS: gcc: error: srptool-args.c: No such file or director

[Helmut Grohne]

Control: retitle -1 dpkg misplaces tpl-config.tlib during unpack
Control: reassign -1 dpkg
Control: found -1 1.18.5
Control: affects -1 + autogen src:gnutls28
Control: severity -1 grave

On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 06:17:38AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> I have little clue what is going on here, but what I can tell already is
> that this issue is not caused by the 3.4.11-4 upload. My first
> failing[1] build was on 2nd of May at 21:00 UTC. My last successful[2]
> build was on the same day at 16:00 UTC (both using the ftp.de.debian.org
> mirror). Now all of my gnutls28 builds fail with that error. They differ
> by one or two mirror pushes, so not many things can have caused that
> regression.  The only potentially relevant piece I could find thus far
> is the tar NMU.

Simple. /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/autogen/tpl-config.tlib isn't there.
It's part of autogen, but dpkg 1.18.5 fails place it correctly.

Unpacking autogen with dpkg 1.18.4 places it at the correct location.
Unpacking autogen with dpkg 1.18.5 places it at
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/autogen/tpl-config.tlib.dpkg-new.

It is yet unclear under what conditions this happens. Still we can
conclude that dpkg 1.18.5 can result in broken installations, thus
marking grave.

Helmut