Bug#831870: devscripts: [mk-origtargz] Fails to create tar with Files-Excluded

[Chirayu Desai]

Package: devscripts
Version: 2.16.6
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I'm working with the Android Tools team. We're seeing a failure with mk-origtargz.
The package is src:android-platform-frameworks-base [1]. The output can be viewed at [2].
The output is basically:
mk-origtargz --repack --compression xz android-6.0.1_r43.tar.gz
No files matched excluded pattern as the last matching glob: *.zip
No files matched excluded pattern as the last matching glob: core/tests
No files matched excluded pattern as the last matching glob: media/tests
tar: tools/preload/sorttable.js: Not found in archive
tar: <files matching Files-Excluded>: Not found in archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
mk-origtargz: error: tar --delete tools/preload/sorttable.js <more files matching Files-Excluded>
gave error exit status 2
The file android-6.0.1_r43.tar.gz can be grabbed from [3]. It is big, 930M.

Regards,
Chirayu Desai

[1]: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/android-tools/android-platform-frameworks-base.git
[2]: http://sprunge.us/RCIR
[3]: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+archive/android-6.0.1_r43.tar.gz

-- Package-specific info:

--- /etc/devscripts.conf ---

--- ~/.devscripts ---
Not present

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev     1.18.9
ii  libc6        2.23-1
ii  perl         5.22.2-2
pn  python3:any  <none>

Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii  apt                         1.3~pre2
ii  at                          3.1.20-1
ii  curl                        7.47.0-1
ii  dctrl-tools                 2.24-2
ii  debian-keyring              2016.07.02
ii  dput                        0.9.6.4
ii  equivs                      2.0.9+nmu1
ii  fakeroot                    1.21-1
ii  file                        1:5.28-3
ii  gnupg                       1.4.20-6
ii  gnupg2                      2.1.11-7
ii  libdistro-info-perl         0.14
ii  libencode-locale-perl       1.05-1
ii  liblwp-protocol-https-perl  6.06-2
ii  libsoap-lite-perl           1.20-1
ii  liburi-perl                 1.71-1
ii  libwww-perl                 6.15-1
ii  licensecheck                3.0.1-1
ii  lintian                     2.5.45
ii  man-db                      2.7.5-1
ii  patch                       2.7.5-1
ii  patchutils                  0.3.4-1
ii  python3-debian              0.1.28
ii  python3-magic               1:5.28-3
ii  sensible-utils              0.0.9
ii  strace                      4.12-3
ii  unzip                       6.0-20
ii  wdiff                       1.2.2-1+b1
ii  wget                        1.18-2
ii  xz-utils                    5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1

Versions of packages devscripts suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]            8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-3
ii  build-essential              12.2
pn  cvs-buildpackage             <none>
pn  devscripts-el                <none>
pn  diffoscope                   <none>
pn  dose-extra                   <none>
pn  gnuplot                      <none>
ii  gpgv                         1.4.20-6
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl          2.1600-1
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl    0.22-1
ii  libnet-smtp-ssl-perl         1.03-1
pn  libterm-size-perl            <none>
ii  libtimedate-perl             2.3000-2
pn  libyaml-syck-perl            <none>
pn  mozilla-devscripts           <none>
ii  mutt                         1.6.0-1
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:7.2p2-5
pn  svn-buildpackage             <none>
ii  w3m                          0.5.3-29

-- no debconf information