distutils packages fail to build on some buildds at the moment

[Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org>]

FYI: A few buildds (I know of armel, hppa, and mipsel buildds) are
currently building with a user that isn't in the passwd database.

Distutils doesn't like this:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 386, in <module>
>     **extra)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/distutils/core.py", line 125, in setup
>     dist.parse_config_files()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/distutils/dist.py", line 366, in parse_config_files
>     filenames = self.find_config_files()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/distutils/dist.py", line 329, in find_config_files
>     check_environ()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/distutils/util.py", line 205, in check_environ
>     os.environ['HOME'] = pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[5]
> KeyError: 'getpwuid(): uid not found: 2952'

The buildd admins are aware of this, and hopefully the cause will be
uncovered and rectified soon enough.

SR

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