Hi Lucas, Thanks a lot for investigating.
On 18-01-15 10:36, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> This is caused by soffice failing when HOME is set to a non-existent
> directory,
> as demonstrated by the log below.
Irony, I had to work around a missing HOME in the build-arch target as
well some time ago, reported by .... Lucas Nussbaum... (bug 713492)
> oolite and winff are the only two packages in the archive failing to
> build in that situation. But as I said in the oolite bug, I'm not going
> to argue that this is RC.
If you care enough, let's ask the release team? I don't object fixing
this with the change below.
Paul
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ override_dh_auto_build-arch:
mv winff winff-qt
override_dh_auto_build-indep:
- soffice --headless --convert-to pdf --outdir docs docs/WinFF.*.od?
+# bug 768733: if $HOME does not exist, soffice fails to build pdf's
+ HOME=/tmp soffice --headless --convert-to pdf --outdir docs
docs/WinFF.*.od?
# The language files are searched only for the first two characters of the
# language code, and we don't have a proper Spanish translation yet.
if [ ! -f docs/WinFF.es.pdf ] ; then \
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