Iain Lane <la...@debian.org> writes:

> at all. Thus, if HOME is not writable and an application uses the
> registry, the build will fail.

Gah.  Thanks for getting to the bottom of it; I've run afoul of such
bugs in the past as well, and they're always a nuisance because the
only possible workaround is ugly LD_PRELOAD hackery.

> I'm assigning a clone to mono, and I suggested to hyperair that, until
> this bug is fixed, we should disable the tests in gstreamer-sharp.

That sounds reasonable.  You could perhaps also conditionalize them on
the "official" home directory's writeability, if that's not too much
trouble.

Thanks!

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