Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!news.servidellagleba.it!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Andrey Rakhmatullin Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Unittests writing to HOME (backintime) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:50:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Wed Mar 29 09:41:19 2023 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.1 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/20907 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/ZCQHqph7T4OFG2IJ@durkon.wrar.name Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 25 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:40:58 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <2dd30b047f9de026dc4751f50786a555@posteo.de> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:14998 On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 07:52:35AM +0000, c.buhtz@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 Debian auto-builders" is outdated and today it is possible to write to HOME 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.