Bug#571274: brltty: FTBFS with Python 2.6 as default version

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Hello,

Jakub Wilk, le Wed 24 Feb 2010 23:03:49 +0100, a écrit :
> | $ find debian/tmp/ -type f -path '*python*'
> | debian/tmp/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Brlapi-0.5.4.egg-info
> | debian/tmp/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/brlapi.so

Err, looks like an issue with the setup and Extension packages. All
brltty does is to run

python setup.py --quiet install --skip-build --record installed-files --root the_install_root

With python2.5, this installs in

the_install_root/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/brlapi.so

while with python2.6, this installs in

the_install_root/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/brlapi.so

Is that an expected change of behavior in python2.6?

If have noticed that there is a --install-layout option to which we can
pass deb instead of the new value unix.  Is that what has changed and
that we should just use?

Samuel