On 02/07/2014 02:41 PM, Julian Taylor wrote:
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>
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu
> <mailto:andr...@an3as.eu>> wrote:
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>     Hi folks,
>
>     I have commited some packaging for a bioinformatics package arden to
>
>        git://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/arden.git
>     <http://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
Part of my patch  ;-)

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