Hi, this also happens for me even without make --shuffle.
With a ratt run in a machinectl container. (to check for xmlsec 1.3.x) Which resulted in make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/open-vm-tools-12.5.0' dh_auto_build -O--sourcedirectory=open-vm-tools cd open-vm-tools && make -j4 here it was /usr/bin/mkdir -p gogoproto /usr/bin/mkdir -p github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types protoc --cpp_out=. -I/usr/share/gocode/src/github.com/gogo/protobuf /usr/share/gocode/src/github.com/gogo/protobuf/gogoproto/gogo.proto sed 's/import weak /import /' /usr/share/gocode/src/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/mount.proto > github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/mount.proto /usr/bin/mkdir -p github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types google/protobuf/descriptor.proto: File not found. sed 's/import weak /import /' /usr/share/gocode/src/github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/metrics.proto > github.com/containerd/containerd/api/types/metrics.proto gogoproto/gogo.proto:32:1: Import "google/protobuf/descriptor.proto" was not found or had errors. 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Regards, Rene