[Build-common-hackers] Bug#587240: Bug#587240: python installs to site-packages but with 2.6 they are not in sys.path

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Steffen,

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 04:39:47PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
>I am browsing documentation and source and it seems like
>/usr/share/cdbs/1/class/python-distutils.mk
>is somewhat stuck with python 2.5 where the site-packages
>are part of the system path. With 2.6 this is no longer the
>case but I want my python packages to be visible for all
>without the need to
>export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages

Could you provide a packaging code sample which demonstrates actual 
problems?

In my experience (without claiming that I know what is really going on) 
python-distutils.mk does the right thing with both Python 2.5 and 2.6, 
and only the documentation is outdated.


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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