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kyua fails to start with a non-existing homedir #204

Open nbraud opened 5 years ago

nbraud commented 5 years ago

I'm currently packaging kyua for Debian (as a test dependency of pkgconf), and I noticed that kyua hard aborts when the current homedir does not exist; this is the case in one of the Debian build sandboxes, sbuild, which sets HOME=/sbuild-nonexistent.

This would make things much easier if kyua didn't needlessly abort under such conditions. Alternatives include: