Bug#602453: pd-pmpd: FTBFS - unoconv needs writable $HOME

[Vincent Bernat]

OoO En  cette nuit striée d'éclairs  du vendredi 05  novembre 2010, vers
02:32, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> disait :

>> pd-pmpd fires up unoconv to convert its manual from Star Office's
>> native format to PDF, but unoconv evidently needs a writable $HOME for
>> whatever reason:
>> 
>> | unoconv -f pdf /build/buildd-pd-pmpd_0.9-1-i386-D5fhxp/pd-pmpd-0.9/manual/pmpd.sxw
>> | stat: cannot read file system information for `/home/buildd': No such file or directory
>> | [Java framework] Error in function createSettingsDocument (elements.cxx).
>> | javaldx failed!
>> | Error: Unable to connect or start own listener. Aborting.
>> | make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_build] Error 251
>> 
>> To address this, you could either create and use a temporary $HOME or
>> split the docs and examples out into architecture-independent packages
>> (or perhaps a single such).
>> 
>> Could you please do so?

> Hmm, this seemed to work on at least ia64 and the uploading host
> (built in a pbuilder chroot). And now I get failures on DISPLAY not
> being set on a pbuilder chroot.

> Vincent, do you know which environment variables need to be set
> correctly to use unoconv?

unoconv  does  not  require  anything  by itself  (neither  DISPLAY  nor
writable HOME). However,  OO.org UNO binding can be  pretty difficult to
make  work  without  a  desktop environment.  Even  with  OpenOffice.org
headless version,  you will need  a X server  like xvfb to  start OO.org
listener. Moreover, this is not 100% reliable.

Maybe this is is better to keep the documentation in sxw format?
-- 
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NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR FROM MY ARMPITS
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