Hello, On Wed 09 Aug 2023 at 02:23pm -07, Manphiz wrote:
> While practicing some Emacsen packaging and getting assistance from > #debian-mentors, I noticed that with "debhelper-compat (=13)" it now > sets up a writable $HOME[1]. With this, Emacs with native compilation > doesn't need any specially handling during build or test anymore, at > least in dh_auto_*. However, currently dh-elpa doesn't use the same set > up as dh_auto_*[2] yet, so currently it will still cause failure in > targets like dh_elpa_test. Will the team consider to follow the same > convention so that $HOME becomes writable? I assume this will also make > it possible to drop the EMACS_INHIBIT_AUTOMATIC_NATIVE_COMPILATION > related patches. Debian Policy requires that package builds don't attempt to write into HOME. -- Sean Whitton
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