Re: Behavior change for Python packages built with CMake

[Timo Röhling <roehling@debian.org>]

* Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> [2023-07-27 14:24]:
> > The patched sysconfig and distutils.sysconfig modules in Debian
> > have a (somewhat poorly documented) override for package
> > builds: set the DEB_PYTHON_INSTALL_LAYOUT environment variable to
> > "deb_system". This is used internally by pybuild
>
> Would it make sense for debhelper to set this, either unconditionally
> or in a sufficiently new compat level, and either unconditionally or
> for the cmake and meson build systems?
Yes, I think that is a good idea. One thing I am a bit afraid of is
upstream cargo-culting, i.e., someone setting this variable
unconditionally in their build system as a "Debian workaround",
which would defeat its purpose, distinguishing a package build from
a regular user build.


Cheers
Timo

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