[Build-common-hackers] Howto use CDBS with auto tools and Python?

[W. Borgert]

Hi,

I like to build a package with CDBS that is made using GNU auto tools.
The debian/rules has only two relevant lines:

include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk

The package contains not only C, but also Python code, so Makefile.am
and configure.ac have the usual entries python_PYTHON and
AM_PATH_PYTHON.  So far, everything works fine, but by default, the
package contains .pyc and .pyo files under site-packages/ what is not
what you want to have in a Debian package.  A workaround is to
explicitly list all *.py files in the debian/*.install files, but
that is cumbersome and leads to another problem: No .pyc or .pyo
files are created at package installation time.  I assume, that it
would be enough to call dh_python somewhere, but how exactly?  And
shouldn't that be done by CDBS automatically?  TIA!

Cheers, WB