Bug#891847: dpkg-deb: error: conffile '/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/common/opensearch_html.xml' does not appear in package

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: dpkg-repack
Version: 1.43
Severity: normal

Hi.

When I try to:
# dpkg-repack xul-ext-noscript

it gives me:

dpkg-deb: error: conffile '/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/common/opensearch_html.xml' does not appear in package
dpkg-repack: Error running: dpkg-deb --build dpkg-repack.xul-ext-noscript.EpAiw0 .
dpkg-repack: Problems were encountered in processing.
dpkg-repack: The package may be broken.

Not sure why the file is missing (I didn't delete it)... but the program should
probably just continue without it, as it's a conffile, which one should be
allowed to remove:
/var/lib/dpkg/info$ cat xul-ext-noscript.conffiles
/etc/iceweasel/searchplugins/common/opensearch_html.xml
/etc/xul-ext/noscript.js


Cheers,
Chris.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dpkg-repack depends on:
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5
ii perl 5.26.1-5

dpkg-repack recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg-repack suggests:
ii fakeroot 1.22-2

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