Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: > Hello, > > On Thu 10 Aug 2023 at 01:11pm -07, Manphiz wrote: > >> Thanks for the pointers! I think the reasons given in the bugs are >> essentially the same as the scenarios I gave in my other mail, >> especially when it is not Emacs itself but the client code that accesses >> $HOME. Would the team consider enabling it in dh-elpa given that no >> write is done to $HOME/$XDG_* so that no Policy violation happens? > > There's the risk of bugs here. Setting HOME to /nonexistent ensures > that unknown writing to HOME doesn't slip in in a future upload.
+1 And as far as I know sbuild (which is used on buildds) always does this by default, and every build log will have this line near the top: HOME=/sbuild-nonexistent I wonder if it's always set up this way, or only when the 'sbuild-debian-developer-setup' package is used? Cheers, Nicholas
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