[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#711423: python-csb: FTBFS: tries to write to $HOME

[Jakub Wilk]

Source: python-csb
Version: 1.1.1+dfsg-1
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source

python-csb FTBFS in an environment in which user's home directory 
doesn't exist (in this case $HOME=/nonexistent):
| epydoc --html -o /build/python-csb-k0xwFp/python-csb-1.1.1+dfsg/docs/api --name CSB --no-private --introspect-only --exclude csb.test.cases --fail-on-error --fail-on-warning --fail-on-docstring-warning /build/python-csb-k0xwFp/python-csb-1.1.1+dfsg/csb
|   [.....
| +---------------------------------------------------------------------
| | In /build/python-csb-k0xwFp/python-csb-1.1.1+dfsg/csb/io/plots.py:
| | No documentation available!
| |     Error: Import failed:
| |            RuntimeError: Failed to create /nonexistent/.matplotlib;
| |            consider setting MPLCONFIGDIR to a writable directory for
| |            matplotlib configuration data (line 53)
| |
|   [........
| +---------------------------------------------------------------------
| | In /build/python-csb-k0xwFp/python-csb-1.1.1+dfsg/csb/apps/
| | precision.py:
| | No documentation available!
| |     Error: Import failed:
| |            RuntimeError: Failed to create /nonexistent/.matplotlib;
| |            consider setting MPLCONFIGDIR to a writable directory for
| |            matplotlib configuration data (line 8)
| |
|   [.........................................................................]
| Warning: 1 markup error was found while processing docstrings.  Use
|          the verbose switch (-v) to display markup errors.
| make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_build] Error 2
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/python-csb-k0xwFp/python-csb-1.1.1+dfsg'
| make: *** [build] Error 2

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Jakub Wilk