I seem to remember placing vines under tripwire/string in past versions, but in 1.12 I am unable to place vines in the space immediately below a tripwire. If you have vines in that space and place tripwire above them, it deletes the vines.
To duplicate:
Place a block
place string above the space next to the block
try to place vines on the sid of the block that has string over it
Environment
Minecraft 1.12
Windows 10
Java 1.8.0_25 64bit
Duplicate of MC-118221