Package: general Severity: wishlist "general" is not the best package to report this to, but since there's no "buildd" package, and I don't want it to be completely forgotten, I'll report it here. I'm quoting from a bugreport where we came across this, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388399;msg=123:
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:32:16AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > > > However, I'd like to point out that this problem is not special to TeX. > > Many programs create ~/.progname directories when run for the first time > > - and these directories contain configuration options which might cause > > trouble, since they are not updated or subject to dpkg conffile > > questions when the package changes configuration options. It might be a > > good thing to require such tools to have a commandline switch or obey a > > commandline variable that prevents this. Alternatively, HOME could be > > set to the temporary build directory, so that everything happens there. > > Yes, that's true. Setting $HOME to something explicitly nuked by the clean > target might be a good general solution. In practice, there are few tools > that have broken buildd chroots in the manner that tex seems to have here. Regards, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
