Bug#615963: libvendorlib-perl: tilde expansion tests failing

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Ansgar Burchardt, Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:39:47PM +0100 |=-
> Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org> writes:
> > (repetitive mumbling)
> >
> > Why not pathcing sbuild so it provides a useful home directory 
> > (possibly wiped after build)? Seemed like a lot of effort some time 
> > ago, but having to work around it forever doesn't seem trivial either.
> 
> For me it is a bug when a build relies on the contents of $HOME as it
> makes builds harder to reproduce.  It's better to fix these problems
> when we see them than patching sbuild.

In my mind, sbuild-provided, empty $HOME/ would improve 
reproducibility. Similarly to the idea that you get an empty chroot, 
without the packages installed on the regular system.

Of course, the fact that I am not really suffering from these problems 
(my involvment in fixing them is practicaly zero) makes my point just 
a tiny bit more relevant than a random whining, which you may as well 
ignore.
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