Bug#861591: Bug#862071: password-store: FTBFS when built in a path with >= 74 characters

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 10:43:21PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> gregor herrmann wrote:
> 
> > > This is due to GNUPGHOME needing to fit within sockaddr_un.sun_path.
> > 
> > Also #861591, where the same happens.
> > 
> > I'm not sure how RC-ish this should be, as build paths by our usual
> > tools (sbuild, pbuilder) are, IIRC, shorter (/build/<pkgname>/…), so
> > this shouldn't be a problem in most cases.
> 
> As it happens, it appears to also fail when HOME is non-existent:
> 
>   https://gist.github.com/lamby/72f051e7c4dd75cfbdd23e48a2151f5e/raw
> 
> … which is even more dubious as RC severity, but I'll leave that to
> the Release Team.

Hi Release Team,

Please could you rule on whether the above class of bugs should be RC
for stretch? It doesn't seem productive at this late stage.

Thanks,
Dominic.