Re: Unittests writing to HOME (backintime)
On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 07:52:35AM +0000, c.buhtz@posteo.jp wrote:
> I assume this topic is not specific to one package but to the whole python
> packaging universe.
>
> There is "backintime" which unittests do write to $HOME. I'm one of the new
> upstream maintainers and know that this isn't a good idea. It will take time
> to fix this.
> About that problem there is a debian bug report nearly 4 years old
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=940319
>
> It tells that this is a problem because writing to HOME during build "is
> disabled on Debian auto-builders".
>
> My question now is why newer version of this package are uploaded then? I
> couldn't find that the tests where deactivated.
As the software doesn't use a discoverabe build system the package needs
to have all build steps explicitly in d/rules, and it just doesn't have
the test step there.
> Maybe this "disabled on
> Debian auto-builders" is outdated and today it is possible to write to HOME
> during build?
No.
The usual solution is AFAIK to set a temporary $HOME inside d/rules though.
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