Bug#875636: lintian ignores profiles under $HOME
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.50.4
Severity: important
lintian ignores profiles under $HOME.  Previous versions of lintian 
recognized profiles under $HOME.  I'm not sure exactly when the 
regression happened.  At least some version of lintian in Jessie worked.
The order in which lintian searches for profiles is documented at 
https://lintian.debian.org/manual/section-2.5.html in section 2.5.1.  
But in my case the search seems to be skipping $HOME.
Here is a transcript showing the issue:
$ env
MAIL=/var/mail/buildbot-worker
USER=buildbot-worker
HOME=/var/lib/buildbot-worker
LOGNAME=buildbot-worker
TERM=xterm
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/sh
PWD=/var/lib/buildbot-worker
$ ls $HOME/.lintian/profiles/buildbot
main.profile
$ lintian --info --profile buildbot 
buildbot-master_0.9.11-1+4.sid.2c3cdb66640084a9aa9cca640b0c9c49853179d5.dsc
Cannot find profile buildbot (in /usr/share/lintian/profiles) at 
/usr/share/lintian/commands/lintian line 1561.
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