When I run autopkgtest using sbuild on my own machine, I sometimes get warnings or breakages because certain environment variables are either unset or have "broken" values, whereas I see that on ci.debian.net and the buildds, the builds run without problem.
So clearly there are certain environment variables that are being set on these Debian machines that are not documented (or at least not anywhere that I could find). The particular environment variables that I have so far stumbled upon are HOME (pointing to where?), LC_ALL (or something similar; what is its setting?) and XDG_RUNTIME_DIR; there are probably others I am unaware of. It would be really useful to be able to set up my local sbuild environment in the same way as the Debian machines (buildd and ci.debian.net) for testing purposes. If anyone can shed some light on this, I'd be very grateful! And then perhaps this information could be added to sbuild-setup(7). Thanks! Julian
