On 09-Sep-07, 02:26 (CDT), Sergei Golovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/9/07, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's a bug in your package. Packages should not rely on anything in $HOME > > for building, and should definitely not write anything to $HOME, as packages > > are not supposed to modify anything outside of the build directory during > > build. > > It would be sufficient (for this particular package) to point HOME to > a truly unexistent directory. Is there a reason why /unexistent exists > in buildd chroot? > But OK, I'll try to fix the package (setting HOME inside debian/rules > should help).
That's fixing a symptom, not the bug. What possible justification is there for a package looking at the contents of $HOME during the build? Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]