severity 1029752 normal thanks to expand on this issue a little: the autopkgtest is legitimately indicating a regression in nmh, where a set-but-empty $HOME is treated differnt (= as fatal exception) from an unset $HOME variable.
this has triggered a long discussion on upstream's mailing list about the desirable/least-surprising behaviour. stephen's already adjusted xlbiff's behaviour for greater robustness in a pending release. for consistency i've also addressed this in nmh version 1.8~RC2-2, which falls back to getpw*() for both set-but-empty and unset $HOME. regards az -- Alexander Zangerl + GPG Key 2FCCF66BB963BD5F + https://snafu.priv.at/ > Hi, my name is Rebecca, and I'm a computing whore. -- Rebecca Gray If I pay you twenty bucks, will you blow my EPROM? -- Joe
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