On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote:
> Hi folks, > > I have commited some packaging for a bioinformatics package arden to > > git://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/arden.git > > Since it expects to find its modules under the pretty generic name > "core" I decided to move the modules under > > /usr/share/pyshared/arden/core > > and tried to patch the executable scripts to say something like > I assume this is a python application and not a library? don't install into pyshared, its an implementational detail that might eventually go away as its technically not needed anymore since we only have one python2 version left. python applications usually get installed into /usr/lib/package-name/ as upstream intended then you just patch the entry points to add that path to their search path: sys.path.insert(0, 'module-path') just for completeness, your approach does not work as you are missing a __init__.py in the folder
