Bug#859643: FTBFS with sources imported into git

reopen 859643 thanks Hi, here's what I do and which still fails with 139-1: * I take the upstream tarball (which includes empty directories) and the debian tarball into git (I use git add . -f). * I clone the git repo, remove the .git directory, and run dpkg-buildpackage. Regards, D

Bug#859643: FTBFS with sources imported into git

Package: cockpit Severity: minor Hi, the cockpit upstream tarball contains some empty directories. When importing this into git, they get lost.. and then trying to build that fails. It would be nice if you could make sure that the upstream build system either creates them, or doesn't fail. Rega