[Python-modules-team] Bug#920030: python3-pygame: ships headers in /usr/include/python3.7/

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: python3-pygame
Version: 1.9.4.post1+dfsg-2
Severity: serious

Hi,

your package ships the header file(s):

 /usr/include/python3.7/pygame/_camera.h
 /usr/include/python3.7/pygame/_pygame.h
 /usr/include/python3.7/pygame/_surface.h
 /usr/include/python3.7/pygame/bitmask.h
 /usr/include/python3.7/pygame/camera.h
 /usr/include/python3.7/pygame/fastevents.h
 /usr/include/python3.7/pygame/font.h
 /usr/include/python3.7/pygame/freetype.h
 /usr/include/python3.7/pygame/mask.h
 /usr/include/python3.7/pygame/mixer.h
 /usr/include/python3.7/pygame/pgarrinter.h
 /usr/include/python3.7/pygame/pgbufferproxy.h
 /usr/include/python3.7/pygame/pgcompat.h
 /usr/include/python3.7/pygame/pgopengl.h
 /usr/include/python3.7/pygame/pygame.h
 /usr/include/python3.7/pygame/scrap.h
 /usr/include/python3.7/pygame/surface.h

but /usr/include/python3.7 is a symlink to python3.7m in
libpython3.7-dev. This may result in silent file overwrites or depending
on the unpacking order /usr/include/python3.7 being a directory in some
cases, separating the headers into two independent trees.

These header files must be shipped in /usr/include/python3.7m/ instead.
Please talk to the python maintainers to find a proper solution for
handling the packaging of python header files in a future-proof way.


Cheers,

Andreas