[Deb-scipy-devel] Bug#400158: numpy 1.0 available

[Matthias Klose]

Ed Schofield writes:
> Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 13:09 +1100, Ed Schofield wrote:
> >   
> >> Matthias Klose wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Marco Presi writes:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>>  || On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:48:32 +0100
> >>>>  || Soeren Sonnenburg <bugreports at nn7.de> wrote: 
> >>>>
> >>>> 	ss> Package: python-numpy
> >>>> 	ss> Version: 1:1.0rc1-1
> >>>> 	ss> Severity: normal
> >>>>
> >>>> 	ss> we don't want to rc1 to be in sarge if there is 1.0-1 right ?
> >>>>
> >>>> 	ss> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369&package_id=175103
> >>>>
> >>>>         Not really. Numpy 1.0 is not compatible both with current
> >>>>         versions of scipy and matplotlib.
> >>>>
> >>>>         A newver Scipy version compatible with numpy-1.0 has been
> >>>>         released yesterday. I am going to upload it, but I don't think
> >>>>         it will be possible to include both of them in Etch.
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> iff 1.0rc1 is incompatible with 1.0, we should try to get 1.0 into
> >>> etch.  is matplotlib released in a version which compatible to 1.0?
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Yes, certainly. matplotlib 0.87.7 was released soon after NumPy 1.0, but 
> >> primarily to provide compatibility for the Win / Mac crowd, since 
> >> NumPy's ABI changed between 1.0rc2 and 1.0rc3. But the API has only 
> >> changed in minor ways, and I'm fairly confident that any of the last few 
> >> releases of matplotlib (0.87.{5,6,7}) will compile and run fine against 
> >> NumPy 1.0. I guess we'd need a version bump for the soname.
> >>     
> > <snip>
> > However travis also mentioned that scipy lagged behind, but as this is now fixed it would really be a good idea to get the so name change going now... and quickly upload scipy/matplotlib afterwards.
> >   
> 
> Yes, it would be great. But I think, unfortunately, it's too late for Etch:

just talked to Andreas Barth that we can upload the updated packages
to unstable; once all packages are in place they may be considered for
etch. So please go ahead and upload, we can't make things worse.

  Matthias