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Re: Unittests writing to HOME (backintime)

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From	Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
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Subject	Re: Unittests writing to HOME (backintime)
Date	Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:10:01 +0200
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 07:52:35 +0000, c.buhtz@posteo.jp wrote:
> My question now is why newer version of this package are uploaded then? I
> couldn't find that the tests where deactivated. Maybe this "disabled on
> Debian auto-builders" is outdated and today it is possible to write to HOME
> during build?

In compat level 13, debhelper will set $HOME to a temporary directory
during the build (see #942111).

The user's "official" home directory in the system user database
(getent passwd $(id -u) | cut -d: -f6) is still set to a directory that
does't exist (/nonexistent) on the official buildds.

>From an upstream point of view it's still bad for unit tests to do
anything destructive in $HOME, because upstream developers who run the
unit tests won't want their data destroyed, but it's harmless to do
non-destructive things like writing to ~/.cache.

    smcv

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Unittests writing to HOME (backintime) c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2023-03-29 10:00 +0200
  Re: Unittests writing to HOME (backintime) Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@wrar.name> - 2023-03-29 11:50 +0200
    Re: Unittests writing to HOME (backintime) c.buhtz@posteo.jp - 2023-03-29 12:10 +0200
      Re: Unittests writing to HOME (backintime) Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@wrar.name> - 2023-03-29 15:10 +0200
    Re: Unittests writing to HOME (backintime) buhtz@posteo.de - 2023-03-29 12:30 +0200
  Re: Unittests writing to HOME (backintime) Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2023-03-29 13:10 +0200

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