Re: News about the debhelper toolchain

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Paul Wise:
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 2:39 PM Niels Thykier wrote:
> 
>>  * debhelper generate a temporary writable directory for $HOME
>>    and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR plus clear all remaining XDG_* variables.
>>    This simplifies packaging of tools that insist on writing to
>>    $HOME.
> 
> What is the right approach for disabling this locally (in
> sbuild/pbuilder rather than in the package) in case someone wants to
> detect and fix such problems rather than papering over them with this
> workaround?
> 

Currently, there is no way do this for package using compat 13.  I am
happy to review patches for adding such a feature (e.g. via
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS).