Debian 11 raise an error

[vsedyshev-intermedia]

During execution convert WHL package on Debian package raises an next error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "~/log_functions/.venv/bin/wheel2deb", line 5, in <module>
    from wheel2deb import main
  File "~/log_functions/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/wheel2deb.py", line 12, in <module>
    from _wheel2deb.debian import SourcePackage
  File "~/log_functions/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_wheel2deb/debian.py", line 10, in <module>
    from .depends import suggest_name, search_python_deps, normalize_package_version
  File "~/log_functions/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_wheel2deb/depends.py", line 5, in <module>
    from .apt import search_packages
  File "~/log_functions/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_wheel2deb/apt.py", line 2, in <module>
    import apt
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'apt'

I check python3-apt is installed but outside an virtual environment. How to avoid to use apt package module?

[tibersam]

When initiating your virtual enviroment use --system-site-packages. This makes the system packages available inside the Virtual enviroment. Thats how i fixed this error. see also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12079607/make-virtualenv-inherit-specific-packages-from-your-global-site-packages

[vsedyshev-intermedia]

Building Debian packages is only possible on a Debain compatible distribution?

In general, of course, this is not such a big problem, but perhaps not using apt module could allow more distributions to be supported?

And why is the apt module needed in principle, so I understand that dpkg-deb is enough to create the Debain package?

[tibersam]

I'm not a developer of wheel2deb or associated with its maintainers, just someone who had the same problem with virtual environments last week or so ;)

With a quick look over the code base, i think the apt module is used to search for valid package names. The deb generation itself only needs dpkg-deb.

[fyhertz]

Make sure you are running the latest release. python3-apt is no longer a dependency.