The issue seems to be in your upstream's setup.py, not in debhelper as you suggest.
You cannot rely on a home directory being present on the buildds and should not write anything to it if it exists. The correct fix in this case would to be send upstream a patch so that it building does not touch $HOME nor ~/ in any way. A workaround in this case would probably be to create an empty directory and set $HOME to that while running the upstream build scripts. PS: I'd suggest using the new status pages, the ones you linked to are going away soon: http://buildd.debian.org/radiotray -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

