[Pkg-exppsy-maintainers] Bug#535699: #535699 is still found in nipy 0.1.2+1741-2.1

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Hi Kumar,

I wonder, have you tried to follow recommendation thrown by matplotlib,
which was

consider setting MPLCONFIGDIR to a writable directory for matplotlib configuration data

i.e. instead of exporting HOME, to export MPLCONFIGDIR ?
> ,----[ Build log excerpt ]----
> | 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 /srv/goetz.debian.org/buildd/home/.matplotlib; consider setting MPLCONFIGDIR to a writable directory for matplotlib configuration data
> | The full traceback has been saved in /tmp/sphinx-err-7-Kr8I.log, if you want to report the issue to the developers.
> | Please also report this if it was a user error, so that a better error message can be provided next time.
> | Either send bugs to the mailing list at <http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-dev/>,
> | or report them in the tracker at <http://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/issues/>. Thanks!
> | make[1]: *** [htmlonly] Error 1
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