[Pkg-exppsy-maintainers] Bug#535699: nipy: FTBFS: Tries to write to $HOME during build

[Kurt Roeckx]

Source: nipy
Version: 0.1.2+1741-2
Severity: serious

Hi,

Your package is failing to build on various arches with an error
like:
sphinx-build -b html -d build/doctrees   . build/html
Running Sphinx v0.6.1
Exception occurred:
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 439, in _get_configdir
    raise RuntimeError("Failed to create %s/.matplotlib; consider setting MPLCONFIGDIR to a writable directory for matplotlib configuration data"%h)
RuntimeError: Failed to create /home/buildd/.matplotlib; consider setting MPLCONFIGDIR to a writable directory for matplotlib configuration data
The full traceback has been saved in /tmp/sphinx-err-0U7SRi.log, if you want to
report the issue to the author.
Please also report this if it was a user error, so that a better error message can be provided next time.
Send reports to sphinx-dev at googlegroups.com. Thanks!
make[1]: *** [htmlonly] Error 1


Note that $HOME does not exist on most buildds.


Kurt