Dear maintainer:

The packages in the affects line all fail to build in a similar way:

E: dh_python3 fs:312: python3-sorted-nearest includes a common build directory name 'tests' as a module. Likely due to a mis-configured build system installing things it shouldn't.

(That's how src:sorted-nearest fails, as an example).

If this is not a bug in dh-python, please clone and reassign to each of the affected packages, possibly
with a brief explanation of what maintainers are supposed to do.

Thanks.

Control: clone -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 -11 -12 -13 -14 -15 -16 -17 -18
Control: reassign -1 src:appdata
Control: reassign -2 src:busco
Control: reassign -3 src:dissononce
Control: reassign -4 src:django-distill
Control: reassign -5 src:dogtail2
Control: reassign -6 src:gitsome
Control: reassign -7 src:mkdocs-macros-plugin
Control: reassign -8 src:palettable
Control: reassign -9 src:pkb-client
Control: reassign -10 src:pocsuite3
Control: reassign -11 src:python-jira
Control: reassign -12 src:python-multidict
Control: reassign -13 src:python-pantomime
Control: reassign -14 src:python-serializable
Control: reassign -15 src:python-sparkpost
Control: reassign -16 src:python-threadloop
Control: reassign -17 src:sbws
Control: reassign -18 src:sorted-nearest

Hi Santiago (2026.10.20_10:33:14_+0000)

This is a new feature in dh-python, detecting likely build
misconfiguration (as the message states).

building sorted-nearest attempts to install:

sorted-nearest-0.0.41+dfsg/debian/python3-sorted-nearest/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/tests
sorted-nearest-0.0.41+dfsg/debian/python3-sorted-nearest/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/tests/test_ties.py
sorted-nearest-0.0.41+dfsg/debian/python3-sorted-nearest/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/tests/conftest.py

That's clearly wrong, and inappropriate.
I note that the version in unstable doesn't include these files, and it
isn't immediately obvious to me where the regression is. Probably in
setuptools.

But the package includes in pyproject:

[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
where = ["."]

That should really have some includes or excludes.

I checked appdata and busco, both have the same issue. Let's assume that
all of these packages are affected.

Stefano

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
sorted-nearest, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1151409@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> (supplier of updated sorted-nearest package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:41:03 +0200
Source: sorted-nearest
Architecture: source
Version: 0.0.41+dfsg-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Closes: 1151409
Changes:
 sorted-nearest (0.0.41+dfsg-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
   * Standards-Version: 4.7.4 (routine-update)
   * Remove Priority field (cme)
   * debputy lint --auto-fix (routine-update)
   * Remove tests from installation dir
     Closes: #1151409
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