Looking for information about how pyhon is compiled for Debian

[Vaarlion]

Hello :)
I think this is the right email but i could be wrong.
I am looking into compiling newer version of python for old debian we are still maintaining, and i got stuck with the sys.path

i couldn't find any compilation argument that would add additional path to the sys.path, and obviously the location specific to debian aren't there by default. (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages)
I've read about adding them through env var at runtime (PYTHONPATH if i remember right) but i wanted to make thing properly.

I've look at https://salsa.debian.org/python-debian-team/python-debian, which i believe is the repo for the packaging of python in debian, but didn't find what i was looking for.

I am very new to packaging in Debian so i hope i'm not completely off track.

Would you have any info for me ? Thank you for taking time to read through this :)

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