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# `third-party-package-in-python-dir`

Third-party Python packages should install their files in `/usr/lib/pythonVERSION/site-packages` for Python versions before 2.6 and `/usr/lib/pythonVERSION/dist-packages` for Python 2.6 and later. All other directories in `/usr/lib/pythonVERSION` are for use by the core python packages.

Severity: | `warning`
Experimental: | `false`

## See also

- Section 2.5 of the Debian Python Policy 0.12.0.0 documentation

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag