My flow, deployment, and package are set up like this

and my flow uses this import:

from tutorial.spiders.quotes_spider import QuotesSpider

simply running the flow by itself works fine, though

my assumption is that there is an expectation that the flow script should be able to run only with what's available in the env and local imports aren't going to be picked up, but I wanted to be sure I wasn't missing anything

nevermind, I solved it by creating the deployment in the deployment script with

Deployment().create()

instead