Control: severity -1 wishlist On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 07:01:57PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2018-07-08 Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> wrote: > > Package: hugin > > Version: 2018.0.0+dfsg-1 > > > The autopkgtest checks of this package write to $HOME, and fail if that > > is not writable. They don't clean after themselves properly but leave > > ~/.hugindata/camlens.db around. > > I have never cared or checked whether it needs a writeable $HOME. I > assumed autopkgtest was run on something approaching a "normal" system, > i.e. with existing and writeable $HOME. > > Also I was not aware that writing to that directory and not > cleaning up was a bug. Is this documented, and if yes, where?
No, probably not documented. It seems obvious to me that such QA tools shouldn't leave traces in the user home directory: there's a temporary directory allocated to the checks, and log files and all for output. I noticed this because I happened to run QA checks in a chroot without $HOME existing, mainly for catching such bugs during builds (where I believe we do have consensus that writing to $HOME is a bug.) But I don't mind that much, so lowering the severity. Hope that's OK with you. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org _______________________________________________ Pkg-phototools-devel mailing list Pkg-phototools-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-phototools-devel
