[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#939832: chado-utils: installation error

[Andreas Tille]

Control: reassign -1 libchado-perl
Control: tags -1 patch

On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 09:26:28AM +0100, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> 
> reproducible in docker container (buster or sid).
> 
> Seems in fact related to libchado-perl, not chado-utils (but
> libchado-perl is a dependency, reason why it failed).
> 
> Issue is with (I think) $USER being not set in containers. postinstall
> script (Makefile.PL) expects CHADO_DB_USERNAME or USER env vars.
> 
> Not yet clear to me if CHADO_DB_USERNAME is required anyway.
> 
> So I think we could "move" bug to libchado-perl (do you know if there is
> a way to move a bug to an other package?)

See above (reassign).

>, a patch would be set to set:
> 
> 
> exportCHADO_DB_USERNAME=chado
> 
> 
> in libchado-perl postinst next to export CHADO_DB_NAME
> 
> I will do the patch

Thanks, Andreas. 

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