Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: python2.6
When installing a module or package locally on a linux system, that
software is usually installed into the 'site-packages' directory, in a
location that looks similar to '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/'. A
change in the way that python software has been packaged has caused a
new directory to be created '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/'.
>From reading information on the debian mailing lists about this decision
the motiviation was to make it so that software installed on a debian
system by packages would be installed to a separate directory to the one
that is used by distutils for installing software.
i.e. dpkg installs to 'dist-packages' and running 'python setup.py
install' would install software to the site-packages directory.
This seems to work as expected under python2.5, but python2.6 instead
does the following:
from distutils.setup import get_python_lib() returns the 'dist-packages'
directory.
sys.path no longer includes the 'site-packages' directory
'python setup.py install' now installs software in the 'dist-packages'
directory.
'/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/' does not exist.
I tested this today with a fresh install of ubuntu 9.04, and the precise
version of python was 2.6.2-0ubuntu1.
** Affects: python2.6 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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python2.6 fails to create or use site-packages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435015
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