Hi, Andreas. This failure is due entirely to the autobuilders' configuration, which supplies a nominal home directory path of /sbuild-nonexistent because package builds should ignore users' actual home directories. As such, an automatic build on amd64 (for a binNMU, or to enforce a strict policy of discarding uploaded binaries) would suffer the same fate.
I had hoped to reproduce the problem on my amd64 system by running svn-buildpackage --svn-builder=debuild -e HOME=/sbuild-nonexistent but that proved insufficient, presumably because I still had a valid home-directory entry in the passwd database. -- Aaron Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> writes: > Hi Aaron, > > thanks for your bug report. I wonder whether you could test this at you > site and add this variable to the line ind debian/rules starting with > > env DIALIGN2_DIR=/usr/share/dialign EMBOSS_ROOT=/usr/lib/emboss > > since the problem you reported does not occure on amd64 I can just wild > guess and it would be great if you could test it on an architecture > where this problem actually occures. > > It would be sufficient if you simply commit the change to SVN and I can > upload your tested patch. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 11:09:52PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: >> Source: python-biopython >> Version: 1.63+dfsg-1 >> Severity: serious >> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the >> past) >> >> Builds of python-biopython on the autobuilders, which decline to >> provide home directories, have been failing: >> >> ApplicationError: Command 't_coffee -infile Fasta/fa01' returned non-zero >> exit status 135, '--ERROR: : Could not set a HOME directory.Set any of the >> following environement variables to some suitable location: HOME, >> HOME_4_TCOFFEE, TMP or TEMP [FATAL:T-COFFEE]' >> >> and likewise for the other two t_coffee tests. Please arrange to >> point one of those variables to a temporary directory in the build >> tree. >> >> Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org