Bug#746624: python-biopython: FTBFS - t_coffee needs HOME or TMP

2014-05-05 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Aaron, On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 11:54:51AM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Andreas Tille writes: > > > Just for the sake of completeness: It seems that the non-existinsg HOME > > dir. If this exists the test is really quick but with the non-existing > > HOME it took until I killed the process w

Bug#746624: python-biopython: FTBFS - t_coffee needs HOME or TMP

2014-05-05 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Andreas Tille writes: > Just for the sake of completeness: It seems that the non-existinsg HOME > dir. If this exists the test is really quick but with the non-existing > HOME it took until I killed the process which was freezing my machine > (featuring 12GB memory). I do wonder what it's doing

Bug#746624: python-biopython: FTBFS - t_coffee needs HOME or TMP

2014-05-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 01:13:43PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Never mind, that command did reproduce the problem after all; I just > thought otherwise at first because t_coffee ran for a while before > reporting failure. Just for the sake of completeness: It seems that the non-existinsg HOME di

Bug#746624: python-biopython: FTBFS - t_coffee needs HOME or TMP

2014-05-02 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Never mind, that command did reproduce the problem after all; I just thought otherwise at first because t_coffee ran for a while before reporting failure. -- Aaron "Aaron M. Ucko" writes: > Hi, Andreas. > > This failure is due entirely to the autobuilders' configuration, which > supplies a nomi

Bug#746624: python-biopython: FTBFS - t_coffee needs HOME or TMP

2014-05-02 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Hi, Andreas. This failure is due entirely to the autobuilders' configuration, which supplies a nominal home directory path of /sbuild-nonexistent because package builds should ignore users' actual home directories. As such, an automatic build on amd64 (for a binNMU, or to enforce a strict policy

Bug#746624: python-biopython: FTBFS - t_coffee needs HOME or TMP

2014-05-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Aaron, thanks for your bug report. I wonder whether you could test this at you site and add this variable to the line ind debian/rules starting with env DIALIGN2_DIR=/usr/share/dialign EMBOSS_ROOT=/usr/lib/emboss since the problem you reported does not occure on amd64 I can just wild gues

Bug#746624: python-biopython: FTBFS - t_coffee needs HOME or TMP

2014-05-01 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Source: python-biopython Version: 1.63+dfsg-1 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) Builds of python-biopython on the autobuilders, which decline to provide home directories, have been failing: ApplicationError: Command 't_coffee -infil