Bug#609228: libpadre-plugin-spellcheck-perl: Failing tests; Tries to create .padre directory for building user

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Salvatore Bonaccorso, Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 09:20:32AM +0100 |=-
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 02:27:44PM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > -=| Salvatore Bonaccorso, Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 04:48:12PM +0100 |=-
> > > Source: libpadre-plugin-spellcheck-perl
> > > Version: 1.1.2-1
> > > Severity: serious
> > > Justification: FTBFS
> > 
> > Is this with sbuilder settings as on official buildds? Otherwise I'd 
> > say it is  of severity:importatnt. (worth fixing in anu case)
> 
> I talked about that to the release team. We have for all of them with
> arch:all anyway the squeeze-ignore tag, but they should be fixed at
> least later on. When Lucas Nussbaum builds the archive, he generally
> notes too such problems with unwritable homes IIRC. Official buildds
> seems to have something like:
> 
> ---(mount-defaults.buildd)----------------------------------------------
> # mount.defaults: static file system information for chroots.
> # Note that the mount point will be prefixed by the chroot path
> # (CHROOT_PATH)
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> /dev/pts        /dev/pts        none    rw,bind         0       0
> tmpfs           /dev/shm        tmpfs   defaults        0       0
> /home/buildd/build-trees                /build          none    rw,bind         0       0
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

I am still not convinced that this is a problem with the package or 
a problem that should be solved per package.

Home directories are a fundamental UNIX thing, similar to mktemp call. 
For what I guess are safety reasons, sbuild decided not to heep a home 
directory across builds. This solves the problem of build 
interference, but as seen it creates problems for somw packages.

I agree that a fix in the package is simple and quick, but I believe 
this is better fixed globally, e.g. at sbuild level. How difficult is 
it to set up a temporary home directory before starting the build and 
wipe it after (and save many maintainers the job)? Would there be some 
negative effects?