Hello, On Thu 10 Aug 2023 at 11:51am -07, Manphiz wrote: > And I forgot to provide more context on having dh-elpa provide a "$HOME" > (not necessarily writable), so here it is: while practicing elpa-ifying > auctex, I found that it tried to access "$HOME" even though native > compilation was turned off by default in dh-elpa. Turns out it sets the > "default-directory" to "$HOME" to cope with an evince issue[1]. So > during byte-compiling it will try to set $CWD to $HOME, but it will not > actually write anything (so no Debian Policy violation). With compat 13 > it passes the dh_auto_build phase but fails in dh_elpa_test as the > latter doesn't set up $HOME in the same way. > > Though not a common practice (yet), it seems having a usable $HOME is > expected for some field usage, and providing a similar set up in dh-elpa > may help in such cases. > > [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/auctex.git/commit/?id=fa309c9559f0a6dc3428daca6896f615e7030521 Generally you can set HOME to /nonexistent for builds. -- Sean Whitton
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