Hello,

> On 16 Apr 2021, at 14:06, Valters Jansons <valter.jansons(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> _location.la gets built and installed to site-packages/, however
> an .la file is not expected to reside in the Python root. Additionally,
> the dependency library listed does not have its respective .la file
> installed. Further complicating the situation, dh-python moves the
> site-packages/ files to dist-packages/ silently which then results in
> a broken libdir left behind in the .la file.

Moving those files has indeed many bad consequences and I am not sure if Debian is doing something that is very logical.

However, I can live with simply deleting this file.

> The only reason the file is there is that it gets built inside the
> source directory, which gets copied entirely to location-python package
> as-is. Considering the situation, this commit ensures the .la files is
> not packaged by deleting it from the package files subdirectory.
> 
> location-importer package pulls in two Python (.py) files from the
> source directory. These files should not be included in the
> location-python package as a result.

And how do they go there when they are just being deleted here?

-Michael

> 
> Resolves: lintian:
>  unknown-file-in-python-module-directory,
>  incorrect-libdir-in-la-file,
>  non-empty-dependency_libs-in-la-file,
>  binaries-have-file-conflict
> 
> Signed-off-by: Valters Jansons <valter.jansons(a)gmail.com>
> ---
> debian/rules | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
> index 8893b7b..05b88fd 100755
> --- a/debian/rules
> +++ b/debian/rules
> @@ -18,3 +18,11 @@ override_dh_perl:
> 
> override_dh_systemd_enable:
> 	dh_systemd_enable location-update.timer
> +
> +override_dh_install:
> +	dh_install
> +	# lintian: unknown-file-in-python-module-directory
> +	rm debian/location-python/usr/lib/python3*/site-packages/_location.la
> +	# linitan: binaries-have-file-conflict (d/location-importer.install)
> +	rm debian/location-python/usr/lib/python3*/site-packages/location/database.py
> +	rm debian/location-python/usr/lib/python3*/site-packages/location/importer.py
> -- 
> 2.31.1
>