Something in bazel broke between 0.8.0 and 0.9.0 (and still in 0.10.0) when using distroless

after_changing_to_http_archive.md

 bazel build
.........
ERROR: error loading package '': Extension file not found. Unable to load package for '@distroless//package_manager:package_manager.bzl': BUILD file not found on package path
ERROR: error loading package '': Extension file not found. Unable to load package for '@distroless//package_manager:package_manager.bzl': BUILD file not found on package path
INFO: Elapsed time: 3.787s
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (0 packages loaded)

BUILD

package(default_visibility = ["//visibility:public"])

load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/pkg:pkg.bzl", "pkg_tar")

pkg_tar(
    name = "dev-config",
    strip_prefix = "/dev-config",
    extension = "tar.gz",
    srcs = glob(["dev-config/*"]),
    mode = "0644",
)

what_happened.md

With 0.9.0:

spacey@masonjar:~/dvcs/pcn/broken_bazel_packages$ bazel build
Extracting Bazel installation...
..........
ERROR: error loading package '': Encountered error while reading extension file 'package_manager/package_manager.bzl': no such package '@distroless//package_manager': Prefix distroless-89a3a3a was given, but not found in the archive
ERROR: error loading package '': Encountered error while reading extension file 'package_manager/package_manager.bzl': no such package '@distroless//package_manager': Prefix distroless-89a3a3a was given, but not found in the archive
INFO: Elapsed time: 3.367s
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (0 packages loaded)

With 0.8.0:

spacey@masonjar:~/dvcs/pcn/broken_bazel_packages$ bazel build
Extracting Bazel installation...
..........
INFO: Analysed 0 targets (4 packages loaded).
INFO: Found 0 targets...
INFO: Elapsed time: 6.300s, Critical Path: 0.01s
INFO: Build completed successfully, 1 total action

WORKSPACE

# Based on the google/gcr distroless repo, get package lists from debian snapshot
# package repos, and pull packages from there

git_repository(
    name = "distroless",
    remote = "https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/distroless.git",
    commit = "89a3a3a",
)


load(
    "@distroless//package_manager:package_manager.bzl",
    "package_manager_repositories",
    "dpkg_src",
    "dpkg_list",
)

package_manager_repositories()