Hello, I am trying to unbreak building of gpgme python bindings (#1054786). The build result differs/breaks when python3-setuptools is installed.
Afaiui python3-setuptools is a newer/extended version of python's built-in distutil (which is scheduled for removal). If python3-setuptools the new code is used. dh-python recently has grown a dependency on python3-setuptools, breaking the gpgme build. An unchanged build would install to /usr/local. distutils seems to be patched to not only support --install-layout=deb but also to use it by default, whereas python3-setuptools supports it but does enable it by default. That is easily fixed, however the layout still is different: distutils installed[1] to usr/lib/python3/site-packages/gpg usr/lib/python3/site-packages/gpg/constants usr/lib/python3/site-packages/gpg/constants/data usr/lib/python3/site-packages/gpg/constants/data/__pycache__ [...] plus a gpg-1.18.0.egg-info directly in usr/lib/python3/site-packages/ which we shipped in dist-packages. python3-setuptools produces[1] usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gpg-1.18.0-py3.11-linux-amd64.egg usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gpg-1.18.0-py3.11-linux-amd64.egg/gpg usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gpg-1.18.0-py3.11-linux-amd64.egg/gpg/constants usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gpg-1.18.0-py3.11-linux-amd64.egg/gpg/constants/tofu usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gpg-1.18.0-py3.11-linux-amd64.egg/gpg/constants/tofu/__pycache__ [...] usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gpg-1.18.0-py3.11-linux-amd64.egg/EGG-INFO Looking at other Debian packages this does not look like right. However I have checked "python3 setup.py install --help" and tried to look at python3-setuptools documentation to find the correct knob/setting to switch to the other layout but just could not find it. TIA, cu Andreas [1] well, it used to. If I now "dpkg --purge --force-depends python3-setuptools" it seems to install to dist-packages. -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'