`checkinstall` on Devuan Chimaera (equiv to Debian Bullseye) fails with `FileNotFoundError:` Description of problem: Configure and compile work without errors, but `checkinstall` fails with following error. ``` Installing with make install... ========================= Installation results =========================== changing dir to build for make "install"... make[1]: Entering directory '/root/go/src/github.com/qemu/qemu/build' GIT ui/keycodemapdb meson tests/fp/berkeley-testfloat-3 tests/fp/berkeley-softfloat-3 dtc capstone slirp [1/20] Generating qemu-version.h with a meson_exe.py custom command [1/2] Installing files. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/root/go/src/github.com/qemu/qemu/meson/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py", line 140, in run return options.run_func(options) File "/root/go/src/github.com/qemu/qemu/meson/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 544, in run installer.do_install(datafilename) File "/root/go/src/github.com/qemu/qemu/meson/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 362, in do_install self.install_targets(d) File "/root/go/src/github.com/qemu/qemu/meson/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 472, in install_targets file_copied = self.do_copyfile(fname, outname, makedirs=(d.dirmaker, outdir)) File "/root/go/src/github.com/qemu/qemu/meson/mesonbuild/minstall.py", line 277, in do_copyfile shutil.copystat(from_file, to_file) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/shutil.py", line 375, in copystat lookup("utime")(dst, ns=(st.st_atime_ns, st.st_mtime_ns), FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Installing subdir /root/go/src/github.com/qemu/qemu/qga/run to /usr/local/var/run Installing trace/trace-events-all to /usr/local/share/qemu FAILED: meson-install /usr/bin/python3 /root/go/src/github.com/qemu/qemu/meson/meson.py install --no-rebuild ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed. make[1]: *** [Makefile:156: run-ninja] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/go/src/github.com/qemu/qemu/build' make: *** [GNUmakefile:11: install] Error 2 **** Installation failed. Aborting package creation. Cleaning up...OK Bye. ``` Additional information: - All packages from [requirements](https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Linux#Fedora_Linux_.2F_Debian_GNU_Linux_.2F_Ubuntu_Linux_.2F_Linux_Mint_distributions) installed. - command `utime` is available from `atfs` package I believe error may be related to the `from_file`/`to_file`in: `meson/mesonbuild/minstall.py` line 277.