Control: tags 1006784 + pending Control: forwarded 1006784 https://debbugs.gnu.org/54412
Dear maintainer, I've prepared an NMU for automake-1.16 (versioned as 1:1.16.5-1.2) and uploaded it to DELAYED/2. Please feel free to tell me if I should delay it longer. Regards. SR
diff -Nru automake-1.16-1.16.5/debian/changelog automake-1.16-1.16.5/debian/changelog --- automake-1.16-1.16.5/debian/changelog 2021-11-11 07:46:00.000000000 -0400 +++ automake-1.16-1.16.5/debian/changelog 2022-03-15 20:13:57.000000000 -0400 @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +automake-1.16 (1:1.16.5-1.2) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Non maintainer upload + * Patch: Fix search paths for new Python 3.10, use posix_prefix scheme. + (Closes: #1006784, LP: #1960608) + + -- Stefano Rivera <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:13:57 -0400 + automake-1.16 (1:1.16.5-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium * Non-maintainer upload. diff -Nru automake-1.16-1.16.5/debian/patches/python3.10-sysconfig.patch automake-1.16-1.16.5/debian/patches/python3.10-sysconfig.patch --- automake-1.16-1.16.5/debian/patches/python3.10-sysconfig.patch 1969-12-31 20:00:00.000000000 -0400 +++ automake-1.16-1.16.5/debian/patches/python3.10-sysconfig.patch 2022-03-15 20:13:43.000000000 -0400 @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +Subject: [PATCH] python: use the posix_prefix sysconfig scheme on Debian + +Fixes Debian's bug: https://bugs.debian.org/1006784 + +Debian adds a custom sysconfig scheme to system python installs, +"posix_local". This is the default scheme, and it redirects local users' +Python module installs to /usr/local even though Python is installed +with a /usr prefix. Both are on Debian's python's sys.path module search +path. + +Automake and its users understand prefixes, and are likely to select +/usr/local, explicitly. Select the "posix_prefix" scheme, with the +user-supplied prefix. + +Previously this custom sysconfig scheme was specified in +distutils.sysconfig, but not sysconfig itself. As distutils is being +deprecated, the custom scheme is now specified in sysconfig, since +Debian's Python 3.10 (3.10.2-4). + +Author: Gianfranco Costamagna <[email protected]> +Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/1006784 +Forwarded: http://debbugs.gnu.org/54412 +Last-Update: 2022-03-15 + +--- automake-1.16-1.16.5.orig/m4/python.m4 ++++ automake-1.16-1.16.5/m4/python.m4 +@@ -255,7 +255,11 @@ except ImportError: + am_cv_python_pythondir=`$PYTHON -c " + $am_python_setup_sysconfig + if can_use_sysconfig: +- sitedir = sysconfig.get_path('purelib', vars={'base':'$am_py_prefix'}) ++ scheme = sysconfig.get_default_scheme() ++ if scheme == 'posix_local': ++ # Debian's default scheme installs to /usr/local/ but we want to find headers in /usr/ ++ scheme = 'posix_prefix' ++ sitedir = sysconfig.get_path('purelib', scheme, vars={'base':'$am_py_prefix'}) + else: + from distutils import sysconfig + sitedir = sysconfig.get_python_lib(0, 0, prefix='$am_py_prefix') +@@ -297,7 +301,11 @@ sys.stdout.write(sitedir)"` + am_cv_python_pyexecdir=`$PYTHON -c " + $am_python_setup_sysconfig + if can_use_sysconfig: +- sitedir = sysconfig.get_path('platlib', vars={'platbase':'$am_py_exec_prefix'}) ++ scheme = sysconfig.get_default_scheme() ++ if scheme == 'posix_local': ++ # Debian's default scheme installs to /usr/local/ but we want to find headers in /usr/ ++ scheme = 'posix_prefix' ++ sitedir = sysconfig.get_path('platlib', scheme, vars={'platbase':'$am_py_exec_prefix'}) + else: + from distutils import sysconfig + sitedir = sysconfig.get_python_lib(1, 0, prefix='$am_py_exec_prefix') diff -Nru automake-1.16-1.16.5/debian/patches/series automake-1.16-1.16.5/debian/patches/series --- automake-1.16-1.16.5/debian/patches/series 2021-11-11 07:46:00.000000000 -0400 +++ automake-1.16-1.16.5/debian/patches/series 2022-03-15 19:03:50.000000000 -0400 @@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ 0002-Drop-SHELL.patch 0003-t-python-prefix.sh-Respect-PYTHON-environment-variable.patch python3.10.patch +python3.10-sysconfig.patch
