Debian packaging broken by quilt?

Something has changed in the docker image that is breaking the debian packaging in all versions, similar to this:

dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package cassandra
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 4.1.4-20231004git486acc68f1
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable
dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by build <build@1518e06a5507>
dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64
dpkg-source --tar-ignore=.git --before-build .
fakeroot debian/rules clean
QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches \
quilt --quiltrc /dev/null pop -a -R || test $? = 1
No patch removed
make: *** [/usr/share/quilt/quilt.make:23: unpatch] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean subprocess returned exit status 2