Hello, I maintain wreport[1], which is a simple C++ library with Python bindings. The package builds fine on bullseye and bookworm, but fails to build on sid. On sid, meson tries to install the Python extension under /usr/local instead of /usr. I do not understand what has changed, nor how to fix it. I looked on sources.debian.net[3] for other packages containing `python.get_install_dir(pure : false) but I only found pycairo and pygobject, which however can also use setup.py to build. Or xraylib. xraylib doesn't build the python bindings in Debian, but if I try to make it do that, as I'm supposed to, I get in the same situation as wreport. Did something break between bookworm and sid, in the interaction between meson and Python? Adding --buildsystem=pybuild to wreport's debian/rules didn't help, and indeed, at least according to grep, pybuild doesn't seem to know about meson. This[3] meson issue has a lot of discussion, but I can't tell how much of it is relevant. Can anyone help me understand what is going on? [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/wreport [2] https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=python.get_install_dir [3] https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/8739 Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/634F4BD1E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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