On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 07:52:35AM +0000, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote: > I assume this topic is not specific to one package but to the whole python > packaging universe. > > There is "backintime" which unittests do write to $HOME. I'm one of the new > upstream maintainers and know that this isn't a good idea. It will take time > to fix this. > About that problem there is a debian bug report nearly 4 years old > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=940319 > > It tells that this is a problem because writing to HOME during build "is > disabled on Debian auto-builders". > > My question now is why newer version of this package are uploaded then? I > couldn't find that the tests where deactivated. As the software doesn't use a discoverabe build system the package needs to have all build steps explicitly in d/rules, and it just doesn't have the test step there.
> Maybe this "disabled on > Debian auto-builders" is outdated and today it is possible to write to HOME > during build? No. The usual solution is AFAIK to set a temporary $HOME inside d/rules though.
