[Deb-scipy-devel] Re: New SciPy release, Numpy and matplotlib

[Jose Fonseca]

Marco,

On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 17:57 +0100, Marco Presi wrote:
>  || On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:19:44 +0000
>  || Jose Fonseca <j_r_fonseca at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I just uploaded fixed versions of numpy, solving all the problem
> reported by Jose. The are lintian free and built in pbuilder chroot.

Nice. The _orig.tar.gz is missing though.

> I added an epoch so that it is possible to upgrade f2py (previous
> version was 2.xx while now is 0.9.5)
> 
> The debian dir is also on the alioth svn repository.
> 
> The major problem I found, is that numpy is imported correctly only if
> numpy, numpy-ext and f2py. Otherwise I get warning messages when
> importing numpy. For example, if I don't install f2py I get:
> 
> In [1]: import numpy
> No scipy-style subpackage 'f2py' found in /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/numpy. Ignoring.
> 
> The same occurs if I don't install numpy-ext.
> 
> While initially (on Mathias suggestion) I removed distutils part I
> re-added distutils part into the package, otherwise numpy import fails.
> 
> Do you have any ideas on how to fix the above problems? 

Distutils is also needed for building scipy. And as f2py and distutils
are now subpackages of numpy is difficult to split them...

> Anyway, I think this could be a base to build the new scipy and
> matplotlib packages.

I'm now working on scipy.

> If you dont' have objections, I would upload numpy in experimental.

No objections.

> Regards
> 
> Marco

Regards,

José Fonseca


		
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