Greetings! I was investigating autopkgtest failures for golang-yaml.v2 in Ubuntu, and found what I believe is a bug in dh-golang. I can reproduce equivalent failures on sid/bullseye as well. dh-golang attempts to use cp -a to populate a directory with go source code, but that directory is already partially populated with some symlinks, and cp -a doesn't like that. This fails the autopkgtest. adt log snippet: cp -a /usr/share/gocode/src "obj-x86_64-linux-gnu" cp: '/usr/share/gocode/src/gopkg.in/check.v1' and 'obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/src/gopkg.in/check.v1' are the same file cp: '/usr/share/gocode/src/github.com' and 'obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/src/github.com' are the same file cp: '/usr/share/gocode/src/launchpad.net' and 'obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/src/launchpad.net' are the same file Steps to reproduce: <download source for golang-yaml.v2> autopkgtest-build-lxd images:debian/sid autopkgtest golang-yaml.v2_2.4.0-1.dsc -- lxd autopkgtest/debian/sid/amd64 Note that this slightly different test passes! autopkgtest golang-yaml.v2 -- lxd autopkgtest/debian/sid/amd64 I assume this isn't golang-yaml.v2 specific, but have not proven that. I've got a suggested fix, using find to locate the symlinks and remove them before "cp -a". Please see my merge proposal, which adds a find invocation to remove symlinks. https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/dh-golang/-/merge_requests/17 Thanks.