From 30dac2a1f0cbaf479ba03cb7ffd199d7fa4c5763 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Herman Snevajs <herman.snevajs@lutraconsulting.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2026 17:05:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add deps/ unconditionally

---
 mergin/common.py | 26 ++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mergin/common.py b/mergin/common.py
index f7b3d37..3d3f7e8 100644
--- a/mergin/common.py
+++ b/mergin/common.py
@@ -114,20 +114,18 @@ class InvalidProject(Exception):
     pass
 
 
-try:
-    import dateutil.parser
-    from dateutil.tz import tzlocal
-except ImportError:
-    # this is to import all dependencies shipped with package (e.g. to use in qgis-plugin)
-    deps_dir = os.path.join(this_dir, "deps")
-    if os.path.exists(deps_dir):
-        import sys
-
-        for f in os.listdir(os.path.join(deps_dir)):
-            sys.path.append(os.path.join(deps_dir, f))
-
-        import dateutil.parser
-        from dateutil.tz import tzlocal
+# add dependencies shipped in deps/ on sys.path
+deps_dir = os.path.join(this_dir, "deps")
+if os.path.exists(deps_dir):
+    import sys
+
+    for f in os.listdir(deps_dir):
+        dep_path = os.path.join(deps_dir, f)
+        if dep_path not in sys.path:
+            sys.path.append(dep_path)
+
+import dateutil.parser
+from dateutil.tz import tzlocal
 
 
 class WorkspaceRole(Enum):