Hello dear team (and especially new members)!

Here is a bug that I hope will be satisfying to resolve:  The primary
objective is to adjust our autopkgtests and/or patch upstream so that autopkgtests are able to find upstream's test_constants.py.

Vorta has had a fixme-type patch (for a while) that disables a test
that needs a writeable scratch space.  It looks like we can use an
envvar in Vorta's autopktest definition to pass the location of a
writeable scratch space to test_constants.py.  The secondary objective
is to do this.

It's fine if there is a better way to resolve these issues, and this
is just the approach that is most evident to me :)


Best,
Nicholas

Hello,

I was added merge request at salsa to fix this issue.
https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/vorta/-/merge_requests/4

Hello.

After verifying that it fixes the autopkgtests in Salsa CI, I've
made a team upload incorporating the fix posted by Adrian Bunk
in Bug #1138652 (but I'm not closing the bug again because it's
already closed).

I believe this might make the 0007-FIXME-etc patch unnecessary, but
I'm not completely sure. So, as an intermediate step, I've modified
the patch so that the test is marked as xfail (instead of disabling it).

I apologize to yokota for not handling the MR they did. It looks
like it tries to solve the same problem but in a more intrusive way,
so I decided to apply the fix from Adrian first.

Thanks.