On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 11:08:19 +0400 "Sergei Golovan" <sgolovan@nes.ru> wrote: > One of the packages co-maintained by me FTBFS if HOME environment > variable points to an existing inaccessible directory. (See > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=wings3d&ver=0.98.36-4&arch=mipsel&stamp=1189251602&file=log) Does it build in a pbuilder chroot - one that has not been "tweaked" to include /home/$SUDO_USER ? > Should this be treated as a bug in buildd configuration or package > maintainers should take into account the possibility of so unusual > HOME behavior? Personally, I would see that as a failure in the package. /home/foo will not necessarily exist and I can't see a good reason to require access to /home/foo at any time during a build. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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