[OE-core] [PATCH] distutils-common-base.bbclass: Pick up additional .debug folders:

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 08:25 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:13:08PM +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > On 23 August 2012 19:46, Matthew McClintock <msm at freescale.com> wrote:
> > >    ${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/.debug \
> > >    ${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/*/.debug \
> > >    ${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/*/*/.debug \
> > > +  ${libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}/.debug \
> > > +  ${libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}/*/.debug \
> > > +  ${libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}/*/*/.debug \
> > 
> > I thought packages that used distutils generally put their files under
> > sitepackages, and not the python base directory...  Are some packages
> > doing it wrong?
> 
> Yes, almost all python-* recipes after this patch
> http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=3b23feca31480cc56f55301fd0274e622c40b522
> 
> I have 9 such recipes in my dep tree.

That patch shouldn't have gone in, it breaks things. I've posted
something to try and fix things for everyone although python packaging
isn't my strong area.

Cheers,

Richard