Re: ruby-graphviz tests failing in chroot

[Praveen A <pravi.a@gmail.com>]

2012/10/28 Cédric Boutillier <cedric.boutillier@gmail.com>:
> I found out the cause of the problem. As I told you on IRC, this is
> triggered by the fact that with fakeroot, the pbuilder user tries to
> read /root/.pangorc, which not accessible. This yields a warning, which
> caught as being an error in the Ruby Graphiz library.
>
> I found that a similar bug report for pygtk:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570313
>
> The solution proposed is to set the G_HOME variable to /
> this can be done by adding
>   export G_HOME=/
> somewhere at the beginning of debian/rules.
>
> Apparently, althoug this yields to build failures with pbuilder, this
> does not affect buildds.

Thanks for this solution. I added it to debian/rules and it is working now.

> While at it, I saw you wrote manpages for the binaries. Could you use
> some more markup to follow the man conventions: bold for options,
> italics for generic names of parameters?

Thanks for the suggestions, I updated all man pages.

> I noticed also that you haven't patched yet the use of rubygems in the
> tests.

Shouldn't require-rubygems test catch this too?

I have uploaded the package now.
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