[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#630152: dbus: tests disabled because they fail if the user has no home directory

[Daniel Reurich]

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:51:41 +0100 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: dbus
> Version: 1.4.12-2
> Severity: minor
> 
> Some of the regression tests built by dbus >= 1.4.12 use TCP connections.
> These tests want to write to the user's home directory (using getent passwd
> or equivalent, ignoring $HOME), so they fail or time out on the buildds,
> leading to FTBFS of 1.4.12-1 and 1.5.4-1 on most architectures.

Still an issue in 1.10.8-1

Can't we get the test-suite  to make the needed homedir if it doesn't
exist before hand.  In the case of Devuan with jenkins this is all done
in a scratch-space anyway so no big deal.  I'm assuming the same goes
for Debians sbuild/builds

Daniel

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