Bug#551134: lintian: [checks/shared-libs] incorrect-libdir-in-la-file for Python modules missing dist-packages path

[Mathieu Trudel <mathieu.tl@gmail.com>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.17
Severity: normal


Hopefully this won't be too messed up even if I'm reporting from a Ubuntu
system...

Lintian already has been updated to not give out errors for the
incorrect-libdir-in-la-file tag when dealing with Python modules, where the
modules install to /usr/lib/python*/sites-packages, I believe the same should
be done when modules are installed under /usr/lib/python*/dist-packages/.

For example, while preparing a new package for the ethos GObject library:

E: python-ethos: incorrect-libdir-in-la-file
  usr/share/pyshared/gtk-2.0/_ethos.la /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0
  != /usr/share/pyshared/gtk-2.0
E: python-ethos: incorrect-libdir-in-la-file
  usr/share/pyshared/gtk-2.0/_ethosui.la
  /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0 != /usr/share/pyshared/gtk-2.0

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers karmic-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'karmic-updates'), (500, 'karmic-security'), (500, 'karmic')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils       2.19.91.20091014-0ubuntu1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat       1.47-1                    produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev       1.15.4ubuntu2             Debian package development tools
ii  file           5.03-1ubuntu1             Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext        0.17-8ubuntu1             GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debia 0.35.0+20060710.1         Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libapt-pkg-per 0.1.23build1              Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libclass-acces 0.33-1                    Automated accessor generator
ii  libipc-run-per 0.82-1                    Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debia 1.1.1-2ubuntu1            parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-pe 1.1600-9                  Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl    1.37+dfsg-1ubuntu1        Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db         2.5.6-2                   on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdiges 5.10.0-24ubuntu4          Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
pn  libtext-template-perl         <none>     (no description available)
ii  man-db                        2.5.6-2    on-line manual pager

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