Test run on LP buildds - setup.py should not install Apport files

[Max Bowsher]

The first (to my knowledge) run of the bzr tests on the Launchpad
buildds has completed in the bzr-beta-ppa. Good news - only one failure
on 2.3b2.

The single failure is:

FAIL: test_setup.TestSetup.test_build_and_install

and the cause appears to be:

error: /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_bzr.py: Permission denied


Which basically translates as the setup.py doing some rather dodgy
special-casing of the apport hook installation in a way which is
incompatible with being run under fakeroot.

I could probably fudge around this in some way, but perhaps it's the
impetus we need to make that particular bit of setup.py not be "a bit
gross" (to quote the comment there).

Personally, I think setup.py has absolutely no excuse to be installing
files outside of a passed in --prefix argument.

In fact, I'd suggest that setup.py shouldn't be installing the apport
gubbins at all. Leave that up to the OS packager to get right. The hook
is named after the Debian source package name, after all.


Max.

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