Karmic has long since stopped to receive any updates. Marking the Karmic task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".
** Changed in: python2.6 (Ubuntu Karmic) Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/476005 Title: PYTHONUSERBASE should not affect distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib and friends To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/python/+bug/476005/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs