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build-details.json should be installed to different locations for nondebug/debug builds and have distinct base_interpreter values

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Bug description:

In Fedora, we build Python in 4 variants: debug, optimized, freethreading-debug and freethreading. For all of them builds the base_interpreter value stored in the file build-details.json is the same:

  "base_interpreter": "/usr/bin/python3.14",

I suspect it should reflect the build type and contain the applicable suffix(es): d, t, td.
Because of this line, when we run Python's test suite on an installed python3-debug, the test fails, as you can see e.g. here: https://artifacts.dev.testing-farm.io/0ac8ab69-ed5f-4602-9c01-8c13293aa9b6/

test_base_interpreter (test.test_build_details.CPythonBuildDetailsTests.test_base_interpreter) ... FAIL

======================================================================
FAIL: test_base_interpreter (test.test_build_details.CPythonBuildDetailsTests.test_base_interpreter)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.14/test/test_build_details.py", line 124, in test_base_interpreter
    self.assertEqual(os.path.realpath(value), os.path.realpath(sys.executable))
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AssertionError: '/usr/bin/python3.14' != '/usr/bin/python3.14d'
- /usr/bin/python3.14
+ /usr/bin/python3.14d
?                    +

Another issue is that in both cases, the debug and non-debug files are installed to the same location, resulting in a single rewritten file. In case of our sequential build of 4 Pythons, we end up with just two files. Should they be stored in distinct locations for each build instead?

CPython versions tested on:

3.14

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

Linked PRs
  • gh-142256
  • gh-142269
  • gh-150098
  • gh-150414

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Start with test/test_build_details.py, especially test_base_interpreter, and reproduce the installed debug-versus-nondebug failure described in the issue. Trace how build-details.json is generated and installed for the four variants; done means each installed file has the applicable base_interpreter value and distinct locations, with the test passing.

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