[debhelper-devel] Bug#813686: buildsystem python_distutils: no way to pass global options to setup.py on install

[Guido Günther]

Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20160115
Severity: wishlist

Hi,
when using --buildsystem=python_distutils there's no way to pass global options
to setup.py, so using:


   dh_auto_build -- --foo --bar

results in:

  python setup.py install --force --root=/build/.../debian/tmp --no-compile -O0  --foo --bar

but sometimes one needs the options prepended before the install target:

  python setup.py --foo --bar install --force --root=/build/.../debian/tmp --no-compile -O0

since the option is a global one on setup.py not for the install
distutils command. Looking at python_distutils.pm it seems optons are
always appended and can never be prepended.

This happened with recent virt-manage that needs:

  python setup.py --no-update-icon-cache --no-compile-schemas install --force --root=/build/virt-manager-1.3.2*/debian/tmp --no-compile -O0

Please add a way to allow for this.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  autotools-dev            20150820.1
ii  binutils                 2.26-2
ii  dh-strip-nondeterminism  0.015-1
ii  dpkg                     1.18.4
ii  dpkg-dev                 1.18.4
ii  file                     1:5.25-2
ii  libdpkg-perl             1.18.4
ii  man-db                   2.7.5-1
ii  perl                     5.22.1-4
ii  po-debconf               1.0.19

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii  dh-make  2.201604

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