Re: Writing outside of build dir

2016-11-26 Thread Christian Seiler
On 11/26/2016 02:31 PM, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 02:30:59AM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: >>> 2) Is there a common pattern for handling upstream tests that break this >>> rule? Maybe there's an alternative to disabling them? >> >> If upstream tests do that, I would

Re: Writing outside of build dir

2016-11-26 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 02:30:59AM +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > > 2) Is there a common pattern for handling upstream tests that break this > > rule? Maybe there's an alternative to disabling them? > > If upstream tests do that, I would suggest sending a patch > upstream that fixes them,

Re: Writing outside of build dir

2016-11-25 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi! Quoting Christian Seiler (2016-11-26 01:30:59) > On 11/26/2016 01:59 AM, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > Could you point me to this policy? I'd like to learn more, but haven't > > been able to find it. > I just checked and it really isn't in there. Oh. This is odd. I just reported #845715 to

Re: Writing outside of build dir

2016-11-25 Thread Christian Seiler
On 11/26/2016 01:59 AM, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On 11/11/2016 0826:45 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: >> pbuilder sets the home directory of the pbuilder user to /nonexistent >> to make sure that builds don't modify files in the home directory, >> which is forbidden by Debian Policy (for good reason

Writing outside of build dir (was: Re: Scala 2.10)

2016-11-25 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On 11/11/2016 0826:45 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: > pbuilder sets the home directory of the pbuilder user to /nonexistent > to make sure that builds don't modify files in the home directory, > which is forbidden by Debian Policy (for good reason builds are not > supposed to change things outside