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python-setuptools package

setuptools installs into site-packages instead of dist-packages when --prefix is specified

Bug #808885 reported by Christian Hudon
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Bug Description

When installing a python package locally (--prefix=/usr/local) with setuptools, it is installed in the site-packages subdirectory instead of dist-packages. As the former is not on sys.path anymore (at least with lucid), the locally installed package doesn't load when imported.

This is similar to bug #362570, except for setuptools instead of stock python 2.6. Presumably changes similar to those that fix that bug need to be made to setuptools.

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