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Re: debhelper-compat 13 now have a writable "$HOME"



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.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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