dh-perl6 vs. dh-raku: reproducibility issues with vendor/precompiled

[Chris Lamb]

Hi Dominique,

>>     --- a/dh_raku_build
>>     +++ b/dh_raku_build
>>     @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ foreach my $pkg (getpackages()) {
>>                       --from=. --to=debian/tmp/pre-compiled!;
>>          doit({
>>              update_env => {
>>     +            HOME => "/nonexistent",
>>                  RAKUDO_RERESOLVE_DEPENDENCIES => 0,
>>              }
>>          }, at cmd);
>
> Unfortunately, the build of perl6-zef with cowbuilder is already broken
> with cowbuilder. The nonexistant home dir leads to build failures.

Ah, shame. Although I wasn't experiencing a build failure, I was
getting the same or similar warnings when building "perl6-readline".

My gut sense is that this will require a change to Raku itself to not
fail if the home directory does not exist. That would feel like a
desired property anyway.


Regards,

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