On Sunday, January 27, 2019 02:34:28 PM Michael Fladischer wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to package several client modules from the google-cloud-python > repo[0]. The problem ist, each client module includes google/__init__.py > and google/cloud/__init__.py, so installing two ore more of these > modules would cause conflicts. > My idea to tackle this was to introduce some sort of base package that > just includes those two files and have all the individual client > packages depend on this one. > This brings me to the next problem: Upstream does not provide such a > base package. Would it be acceptable to make a debian-only base package > with no upstream, pulling those to files from one of the upstream packages? > Or are there any other options? > > [0] https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python
Assuming you're packaging for python3 only, I don't think it's a problem: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0420/ Scott K