Packaging Multiple Python Files

Question

I currently am using this guide to package up my project wasp. However currently everything lives inside of the wasp file.

That's not ideal. I would rather have all the classes in separate files so it can be more effectively managed. I have the series of files needed in the debian directory. But I'm not sure how to configure the packaging to package multiple files.

Is there a way to change my packaging to package more than just the one script file?

Answer 1

I'm not a debian package or Python expert, but one way would be to copy the various source files to another location (outside of /usr/bin), and then have /usr/bin/wasp call out to them.

Say you put all of your python code in src/ in the root of your repo. In the debian/install file, you'd have:

wasp usr/bin
src/* usr/lib/wasp/

You'd then just need /usr/bin/wasp to call some entry point in src. For example,

#!/usr/bin/python3

import sys
sys.path.append('/usr/lib/wasp/')

import wasp # or whatever you expose in src

# ...

Again, I don't know the best practices here (either in directory or python usage) but I think this would at least work!