open-vm-tools 2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1 MISS on ADT because badpkg: rules extract failed with exit code 1

[Connor Kuehl]

I was unsure if I should file this bug here or against open-vm-tools, but since it looks like open-vm-tools hasn't been updated in a while and this error hasn't appeared in previous attempts, I am filing it here for now.

I've seen this occur on Xenial kernels for non-x86 arches like arm, s390x, ppc64el.

Relevant output:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
linux-headers-generic is already the newest version (4.4.0.167.175).
linux-headers-generic set to manually installed.
linux-image-generic is already the newest version (4.4.0.167.175).
linux-image-generic set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
autopkgtest [20:13:04]: rebooting testbed after setup commands that affected boot
Connection to 10.44.45.172 closed by remote host.
autopkgtest [20:13:17]: testbed running kernel: Linux 4.4.0-167-generic #196-Ubuntu SMP Mon Oct 21 19:47:50 UTC 2019
autopkgtest [20:13:17]: testbed dpkg architecture: s390x
autopkgtest [20:13:18]: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ apt-source open-vm-tools
blame: open-vm-tools
badpkg: rules extract failed with exit code 1
autopkgtest [20:13:19]: ERROR: erroneous package: rules extract failed with exit code 1
Exit request sent.
Creating nova instance adt-xenial-s390x-open-vm-tools-20191031-201058 from image adt/ubuntu-xenial-s390x-server-20191031.img (UUID a9aaa4aa-594f-422b-b9c8-677f8a583a23)...

taken from: https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-xenial/xenial/s390x/o/open-vm-tools/20191031_201330_65129@/log.gz