[Debian] nipy depends on $HOME existing

[Christopher Burns]

We depend on matplotlib to build our docs with sphinx. We do have a copy of the required modules in nipy since they only exist in the matplotlib-trunk currently. Perhaps we should remove matplotlib from our list of dependencies?

Kurt Roeckx <email address hidden> Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 7:34 AM
Reply-To: Kurt Roeckx <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
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 <email address hidden>. Thanks!
make[1]: *** [htmlonly] Error 1

Note that $HOME does not exist on most buildds.

[Gael Varoquaux (gael-varoquaux)]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:36:05PM -0000, Christopher Burns wrote:
> We depend on matplotlib to build our docs with sphinx. We do have a
> copy of the required modules in nipy since they only exist in the
> matplotlib-trunk currently. Perhaps we should remove matplotlib from
> our list of dependencies?

We cannot build the docs without matplotlib, that's certain.
One option is to ship the docs with the tarball, to remove the matplotlib
dependency.

Gaël