Comment 2 for bug 1382171

In your example, it appears that conf is a directory. If I set up the structure you describe and include a file in that directory it is packaged when I use pbr 0.10.0. When I do not include a file in that directory, the nspkg/pkg/data/conf directory is not included in the sdist, but I don't get any errors installing the package.

Which version of pbr were you using when you encountered the problem?