news: document the fix for automake bug#10227

This is a follow-up commit for v1.12.5-14-g1f113f6.

* NEWS: Update.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c593896..916385f 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -68,6 +68,21 @@ Bugs fixed in 1.12.6:
   - The maintainer rebuild rules for Makefiles and aclocal.m4 in Automake's
     own build system works correctly again.
 
+* Long-standing bugs:
+
+  - The default installation location for python modules has been improved
+    for Python 3 on Debian and Ubuntu systems, changing from:
+
+        ${prefix}/lib/python3/dist-packages
+
+    to
+
+        ${prefix}/lib/python3.x/site-packages
+
+    This change should ensure modules installed using the default ${prefix}
+    "/usr/local" are found by default by system python 3.x installations.
+    See automake bug#10227.
+
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 New in 1.12.5: