GNU bug report logs - #54435
The test mailcap-parsing-and-mailcap-mime-info forgets to restore the HOME environment variable

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From: Felix Dietrich <felix.dietrich <at> sperrhaken.name>
To: 54435 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54435: The test mailcap-parsing-and-mailcap-mime-info forgets to restore the HOME environment variable
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:16:19 +0100

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Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Running the test ‘mailcap-parsing-and-mailcap-mime-info’ will set the
HOME environment variable to a temporary directory.  After the test the
directory is removed (thanks to the ‘ert-with-temp-directory’ macro),
but the value of the environment variable not restored, polluting the
state of a running Emacs and affecting later commands in the Emacs
session, like the vc-* commands when git cannot find its global
configuration anymore.

The patch wraps the test in a ‘let’ and ‘unwind-protect’ to restore the
value of the environment variable after the test has been run.

[0001-mailcap-tests-Restore-HOME-environment-variable.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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Felix Dietrich

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