[issue2551167] Runinng pip install in containerized environment buries shared files under site-packages

New submission from John Rouillard:

Issue 2551163 added support for docker containerization. If you built
using the 2.1.0 from pypi, the wheel that is built buries the tracker templates,
man pages etc. under the site-packages/usr/local/share/.... Where it is not found by roundup.

I have a workaround for the Dockerfile case (copy the tree to the right place), but
setup.py should not be creating it this way in the first place. make_data_files_absolute
or other changes in setup.py when using setuptools needs to be modified to fix this.
setup.py needs to work on non-containerized environments as well, so modifying the search
list to look under site-packages/usr/.../share/... isn't a good solution.

Note that putting things outside the site-packages tree can cause a conflict for
2 or more roundup deployments in virtualenv's or local hardware. The external
directory tree will be modified by both.

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components: Installation
messages: 7356
nosy: rouilj
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: new
title: Runinng pip install in containerized environment buries shared files under site-packages
type: behavior
versions: devel

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