Ubuntu
python-defaults package

  1. Bug #113298
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 113298

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BryanLawrence (b-n-lawrence) wrote :

Well, actually, this is a DEBIAN problem, not a python problem per se.

/usr/lib/python2.5/Site.py has been patched as follows:

FOR DEBIAN, this sys.path is augmented with directories in /usr/local.
Local addons go into /usr/local/lib/python<version>/site-packages
(resp. /usr/local/lib/site-python), Debian addons install into
/usr/{lib,share}/python<version>/site-packages.

This is not the default python install behaviour (and nor should it be). Obviously I now need to get round this, and will, but actually I reckon this is an ubuntu problem that needs to push back to DEBIAN ...