On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:42 PM, peter green<plugw...@p10link.net> wrote: > >> Hi, thanks for reporting this. I'm a bit confused why this just >> happened since I only added cpio As a manual build depend in this >> release and it builds fine in pbuilder. Must be something different >> about the buildd setup. > > Probablly, pbuilder and buildd setups aren't quite the same which does bite > maintainers sometimes. Just to be even more annoying the buildds often > aren't exactly consistent with each other.
This is probably the case here; it built fine on the -2 upload >> Needing a writable home just seems like a bug to me but I haven't had >> a chance to look at the code yet. > > Personally I tend to think that in general requiring a writable home is poor > behaviour but whether it actually constitutes a bug in a particular case is > a descision for those intimately involved with the program, not flyby > bugsquashers like me (I know I submitted this bug but I only noticed it > because I saw a FTBFS bug had been closed very quickly and decided to check > the buildd logs to see if it had been fixed properly or not). Well thanks for the extra set of eyes, I wouldn't have caught it for a few days. This is definitely an upstream bug,[1] I'll probably wait a few days to see if they respond and if they don't I'll push the quick fix. Fixing the bug itself is a small patch but relatively invasive. Daniel [1] http://code.google.com/p/ypsilon/issues/detail?id=109 -- Daniel Moerner <dmoer...@gmail.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org