I took down the latest sources (5.3.17) and all the libs. The rpc2, rvm 
and lwp built and installed fine. but when I do a "dpkg-buildpackage -b" 
in the coda-dir, it complains after some compiling with

dpkg-deb: conffile /etc/modutils/coda-client" does not appear in package.
dh_debbuild: command returned error code
make: .... err 1

Suggestions?