Comment 7 for bug 836935

Thomas, I think this is worth fixing in Debian too, because otherwise any attempt by anyone other than you to upload the package will fail; this should be counted as an RC bug (consider security support). You don't need a new upstream tarball, though, as you could just add this after dh_installdocs:

  find debian/$(package)/usr/share/doc/$(package)/tests | xargs touch