Package: dh-python Version: 6.20231223ubuntu1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: brett.hol...@canonical.com
Dear Maintainer, Recently, my project attempted to switch from the distutils pybuild plugin to the pyproject plugin. Upon doing so, files that were previously installed at various locations in the root filesystem started getting installed under a prefix: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/<previous>/<path>/ The files were previously installed using the dh-python distutils plugin, and setup()'s `data_files` keyword argument passed the filename. This change in behavior between plugins prevents our project from using the pyproject plugin. Is this change in behavior expected? If so, is there some environment variable override that could be used to override this behavior to match the distutils behavior. I am unfamiliar with the dh-python codebase, but poking around in the source it seems possible that this line[1] is where prepending of Python path prefix is happening. A bit of history: ----------------- In the original commit[2] (5317bb85eca) of this plugin there was some uncertainty around the destination of data files with a comment: #FIXME is this the right dest for data? A later update[3] attempted to follow pip's lead, which was the suggested fix by a user[4]. While this approach may "work", it does break expectations from the distutils plugin, and therefore will likely cause breakage in various projects if we do attempt to make this plugin the default[5]. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/dh-python/-/blob/master/dhpython/build/plugin_pyproject.py?ref_type=heads#L148 [2] https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/dh-python/-/commit/afbc167a10c024ce4890a9d520e6a3ba513494f1 [3] https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/dh-python/-/commit/5317bb85ecaa25ec707221d036c783c0d2a7c9de [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1025485 [5] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1027864 Note: My apologies if this is the wrong place to file a bug, I don't see a way to file against the project in salsa.debian.org. Regards, Brett Holman -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers noble APT policy: (500, 'noble') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.8.0-11-generic (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dh-python depends on: ii python3 3.12.1-0ubuntu2 ii python3-distutils 3.11.5-1 ii python3-setuptools 68.1.2-2 dh-python recommends no packages. Versions of packages dh-python suggests: ii dpkg-dev 1.22.4ubuntu5 pn flit <none> ii libdpkg-perl 1.22.4ubuntu5 ii python3-build 1.0.3-2 pn python3-installer <none> ii python3-wheel 0.42.0-1 -- no debconf information
