Hi! There's some packages which rely on HOME existing and often being writtable. This is broken behaviour as the package does not have any businesss verifying if it exists or writting outside of its build dir (or /tmp).
Some of our buildds try to detect by setting HOME to something like /non-existent. But then it gets pretty confusing for the maintainers trying to reproduce those FTBFS (c.f. #544835). So, I'd propose that any script used to build source should set HOME to a non existent value. And we should probably ammend policy to state that no source package should expect a working HOME. If no one opposes I'll start filing bug reports. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
