I've just tried this on Debian Testing: > apt source android-platform-libcore > cd android-platform-libcore-6.0.1+r55/ > cat debian/libandroid-dex-java.poms | wc -l 1 > debuild
find ./ | grep "\.pom$" ./debian/libandroid-json-java/usr/share/maven-repo/com/android/json/debian/json-debian.pom ./debian/libandroid-json-java/usr/share/maven-repo/com/android/json/android-6.0.1/json-android-6.0.1.pom ./debian/libandroid-dex-java/usr/share/maven-repo/com/android/dex/debian/dex-debian.pom ./debian/libandroid-dex-java/usr/share/maven-repo/com/android/dex/android-6.0.1/dex-android-6.0.1.pom ./debian/.mh/luni-debian.pom ./debian/.mh/dex-debian.pom ./debian/.mh/dex-android-6.0.1.pom ./debian/.mh/luni-android-6.0.1.pom ./debian/.mh/json-debian.pom ./debian/.mh/json-android-6.0.1.pom ./debian/libandroid-luni-java/usr/share/maven-repo/com/android/luni/debian/luni-debian.pom ./debian/libandroid-luni-java/usr/share/maven-repo/com/android/luni/android-6.0.1/luni-android-6.0.1.pom ./luni/build/luni.pom ./dex/build/dex.pom ./json/build/json.pom > sudo dpkg -i ../libandroid-dex-java_6.0.1+r55-1_all.deb > find /usr/share/maven-repo/com/android/dex/ | grep "\.jar$" /usr/share/maven-repo/com/android/dex/debian/dex-debian.pom /usr/share/maven-repo/com/android/dex/android-6.0.1/dex-android-6.0.1.pom So it looks to me like debian/libandroid-dex-java.poms has no trailing newline, but symlinks pom files are getting installed under /usr/share/maven-repo/ I also tried gbp clone https://anonscm.debian.org/git/android-tools/android-platform-libcore.git cd android-platform-libcore/ gbp buildpackage But got "dpkg-source: error: aborting due to unexpected upstream changes". So either I am not able to reproduce this issue on Testing with android-platform-libcore, or I've misunderstood the problem.