python library installed into site-packages instead of into dist-packages

[Ernst Kloppenburg]

The lirc package comes with python libraries and it installs the libraries into
   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python3.6/site-packages
This results in the libraries not being found by system python.

From what I read in https://wiki.debian.org/Python
they should instead be installed into
   /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages

Release: 18.04

Package: lirc
Version: 0.10.0-2

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: lirc 0.10.0-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-62.69-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-62-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sat Sep 14 12:41:30 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-28 (1842 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.1)
SourcePackage: lirc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-08-14 (395 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, does it create any user visible issue to you?

[Ernst Kloppenburg (ernst-kloppenburg)]

yes, it does.

I actually had the problem on a raspberry pi running Raspbian 10. There I had to add the following to my script so that the library would be found:

sys.path.append('/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/python3.7/site-packages/')

(after having analyzed the problem I then sent the bug report from my desktop computer)

[Alec Leamas (leamas-alec)]

Sorry for late reply.

The python module contains binary. architecture-dependent code and can for that reason not be installed in /usr/lib/python3/ due to overall multi-arch requirements.

That said, the official Debian documents I find are not explicit on how to install these kind of modules. Sending a message to debian-devel in an attempt to get this sorted out.

[Alec Leamas (leamas-alec)]

You are indeed right. Python libraries are not multilib, and should live in /usr/lib/python3/site-packages. Will fix, but the process starts at the Debian side.

[Ernst Kloppenburg (ernst-kloppenburg)]

@Alec I guess in your last comment 'site-packages' should be replaced by 'dist-packages', right?