I was just going to report a similar bug to this, after attempting to
migrate a package from using distutils.sysconfig to sysconfig (due to 3.10
now screaming about distutils being removed Soon(tm)), and discovering that
distutils.sysconfig does report dist-packages, while sysconfig reports
site-packages, just as described in [1].
>>> distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib(0,0)
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
>>> sysconfig.get_path('platlib')
'/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages'
So I'd recommend changing _something_ so that these become at least
consistent, or people are just going to start having to add Debian-specific
hacks everywhere or just ignoring Debian's intended locations, and neither
strikes me as great for anyone.
- Rich
[1] -
https://ffy00.github.io/blog/02-python-debian-and-the-install-locations/
