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Unittests writing to HOME (backintime)

From	c.buhtz@posteo.jp
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.python
Subject	Unittests writing to HOME (backintime)
Date	2023-03-29 10:00 +0200
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Hello,

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. Maybe this "disabled 
on Debian auto-builders" is outdated and today it is possible to write 
to HOME during build?

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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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