[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#749010: Bug#749010: eso-midas: FTBFS: expects writable HOME

[Tomasz Kundera]

IMHO this command is not needed at all as it is a user test procedure, a
graphical one. It cannot and shouldn't be done during package installation.


On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Aaron M. Ucko <ucko at debian.org> wrote:

> Source: eso-midas
> Version: 13.09pl1.2+dfsg-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: fails to build from source
>
> Automated builds of eso-midas have been failing:
>
>   /«BUILDDIR»/eso-midas-13.09pl1.2+dfsg/13SEP/system/unix//inmidas -j "@
> compile.all"
>   mkdir: cannot create directory '/sbuild-nonexistent/midwork': No such
> file or directory
>   Could not create directory /sbuild-nonexistent/midwork
>   make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_build] Error 1
>
> The build evidently tries to work under $HOME, which autobuilders
> typically set to /sbuild-nonexistent because builds shouldn't be
> touching it.  Please arrange for it to work elsewhere, for instance by
> repointing HOME to a specially created directory within the build area.
>
> Thanks!
>
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Tomasz Kundera
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