On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 11:23:43PM +0300, Jussi Pakkanen wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 at 14:09, Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bi...@canonical.com> wrote: > > > We have been working around this in several Debian packages by setting > > this in debian/rules: > > export DEB_PYTHON_INSTALL_LAYOUT = deb > > I'm confused. Why is this not set by default when building packages? > FWICT this is a custom patch in Debian to make Python use deb paths.In > this case Meson is doing exactly what you ask it to do, which is to > use local paths because that environment variable is not set to `deb`.
It will, though it's not there yet. See the thread starting from https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/07/msg00307.html and see https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/dh-python/-/commit/fe7912b8ff386cf21478f2cd7f055b2a8665fdd4 Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/634F4BD1E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enr...@enricozini.org>