Attached is the diff for the NMU I intend to upload in a few minutes. It works around the home-less build problem by setting HOME to a temporary directory while waf is run. Upstreams suggestion of using WAF_HOME didn't work, possibly the waf used by the package is too old.
-- Debian is a beast that speaks with many voices -- Richard Braakman
diff -ru kdissert-1.0.6.c.buggy/debian/changelog kdissert-1.0.6.c/debian/changelog --- kdissert-1.0.6.c.buggy/debian/changelog 2007-01-04 23:41:28.000000000 +0200 +++ kdissert-1.0.6.c/debian/changelog 2007-01-04 23:42:08.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +kdissert (1.0.6.c-1.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * debian/rules: Set HOME to a temporary directory for the build phase, + so that waf works even when the read $HOME doesn't exist. + (Closes: #392940) + + -- Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 4 Jan 2007 23:35:09 +0200 + kdissert (1.0.6.c-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release (really called "1.0.6c", but dpkg version ordering diff -ru kdissert-1.0.6.c.buggy/debian/rules kdissert-1.0.6.c/debian/rules --- kdissert-1.0.6.c.buggy/debian/rules 2007-01-04 23:41:28.000000000 +0200 +++ kdissert-1.0.6.c/debian/rules 2007-01-05 00:41:03.000000000 +0200 @@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ common-build-arch:: build-stamp debian/kdissert.xpm debian/kdissert-16.xpm build-stamp: - $(WAF) configure --prefix=/usr --qtdir=/usr/share/qt3 --want-rpath=0 - $(WAF) + mkdir -p debian/waftmp + env HOME=debian/waftmp $(WAF) configure --prefix=/usr --qtdir=/usr/share/qt3 --want-rpath=0 + env HOME=debian/waftmp $(WAF) touch $@ @@ -24,11 +25,12 @@ common-install-arch:: - $(WAF) install --destdir=$(DEB_DESTDIR) + env HOME=debian/waftmp $(WAF) install --destdir=$(DEB_DESTDIR) rm -r $(DEB_DESTDIR)/usr/share/applnk clean:: rm -f build-stamp - -$(WAF) distclean + -env HOME=debian/waftmp $(WAF) distclean rm -f debian/kdissert.xpm debian/kdissert-16.xpm + rm -rf debian/waftmp
