Bug#668469: aster: FTBFS without writable home directory

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Source: aster
Version: 10.6.0-1-1
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source

Builds of aster in environments (such as on typical autobuilders)
without writable home directories have been failing:

+ python2.6 -c import sys, asrun ; from asrun.main import main,start; del sys.argv[0]; main() /usr/bin/as_run --make --vers=STA10.6 --destdir=/.../aster-10.6.0-1/debian/tmp --config=/.../aster-10.6.0-1/debian/tmp//usr/lib/codeaster/STA10.6/config-py2.6.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/asrun/main.py", line 99, in main
    start()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/asrun/main.py", line 51, in start
    run = ASTER_RUN()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/asrun/run.py", line 158, in __init__
    self._init_rc()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/asrun/run.py", line 252, in _init_rc
    open(ficrc, 'w').write(convert(txt))
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/buildd/.astkrc/config'
make: *** [install] Error 1

Could you please arrange to establish and use a fake HOME within the
build tree?

Thanks!