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Re: added files that prevent from packaging



On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:37:14AM +0100, Hervé Cauwelier wrote:
> Hi,

> I'm glad with the dot one because graphviz is now free but my problem is
> with the Dia one. In a fakeroot environment as debuild launches, Dia
> insists on creating a user preferences file (some ~/.dia), but cannot
> due to the lack of a real user environment.
How does it get ~/?  If its from the environment, you can call it as
HOME=/tmp/ dia.  Otherwise, I guess its from getuid() and getpwent,
which is much messier.

Justin



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