Hello, I had the same issue when building a package with a system interpreter: sysconfig module reports incorrect paths (pointing to `site-packages` instead of `dist-packages`). The culprit seems to be that it thinks that > Current installation scheme: "posix_prefix" instead of `deb_system`. That, in turn, looks to be an issue with `_get_default_scheme()` implementation in `patches/sysconfig-debian-schemes.diff` which depends on environment variable `DEB_PYTHON_INSTALL_LAYOUT`. The only reference I found is a changelog entry stating that this is indeed a desired behavior.
But I wonder why? It is inconsistent with distutils behavior. It does not refer to (quoting sysconfig module docstring) > Python’s configuration information like the list of installation paths and > the configuration variables relevant for the current platform In current form it is essentially irrelevant. Thanks. -- Sincerely, Ievgen Popovych
