xtensor 0.27.1-1 provides new config files etc/xeus-cpp/tags.d/xtensor.json usr/share/xeus-cpp/tagfiles/xtensor.tag I added them to xtensor's debian/libxtensor-dev.install, and dh_installs them. But the build fails with dh_missing reporting: dh_missing: warning: etc/xeus-cpp/tags.d/xtensor.json exists in debian/tmp but is not installed to anywhere dh_missing: warning: A file with an equivalent path was found but did not get installed. Note that dh_install prefers paths in ./ over paths in ./debian/tmp. dh_missing: error: missing files, aborting The following debhelper tools have reported what they installed (with files per package) * dh_install: libxtensor-dev (6), xtensor-dev (0), xtensor-doc (0) * dh_installdocs: libxtensor-dev (0), xtensor-dev (0), xtensor-doc (0) If the missing files are installed by another tool, please file a bug against it. When filing the report, if the tool is not part of debhelper itself, please reference the "Logging helpers and dh_missing" section from the "PROGRAMMING" guide for debhelper (10.6.3+). (in the debhelper package: /usr/share/doc/debhelper/PROGRAMMING.md.gz) Be sure to test with dpkg-buildpackage -A/-B as the results may vary when only a subset is built If the omission is intentional or no other helper can take care of this consider adding the paths to debian/not-installed. make: *** [debian/rules:39: binary] Error 255 dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess failed with exit status 2 But etc/xeus-cpp/tags.d/xtensor.json was indeed installed by dh_install: $ ls -l debian/*/etc/xeus-cpp/tags.d/xtensor.json -rw-r--r-- 1 dd dd 85 Feb 9 02:46 debian/libxtensor-dev/etc/xeus-cpp/tags.d/xtensor.json -rw-r--r-- 1 dd dd 85 Feb 9 02:46 debian/tmp/etc/xeus-cpp/tags.d/xtensor.json So dh_missing is giving a false error. If I prepend ./ in libxtensor-dev.install, as ./etc/xeus-cpp/tags.d/xtensor.json then dh_missing still fails (and dh_install still works) I can work around the bug by prepending debian/tmp in libxtensor-dev.install, as debian/tmp/etc/xeus-cpp/tags.d/xtensor.json But this makes the line inconsistent with the other lines, which are using usr/...