[Deb-scipy-devel] Re: NumPy / SciPy packages

[Ed Schofield]

Hi Jose, Alex,

On 13/06/2006, at 9:12 AM, Jose Fonseca wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 17:54 +0200, Alexandre Fayolle wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 02:46:46PM +0200, Ed Schofield wrote:
>>> Hi guys and girls,
>>>
>>> I'd like to offer to help with packaging NumPy for Debian.  [...]
>
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> It is true that these package are a bit lagging behind, and it is  
>> partly
>> my fault since I have not been very active lately -- way too much  
>> work
>> in $DAYJOB, and my activity as DD has suffered a lot from this.
>>
>> I should be able to work on the scipy/numpy packages next week,  
>> and your
>> help is welcome. You way want to join the deb-scipy-devel list,  
>> which has not
>> been very active lately but is a nice channel to discuss packaging  
>> issues.
>> Subscription information is available at
>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/deb-scipy-devel
>>
>
> I did one experimental repackaging of scipy for numpy and the changes
> were reasonably straightforward.
>
> Marco Presi did the numpy packaging, and it seemed more tricky to
> package. Some questions were left open, such as if and how f2py and
> development headers (*.h, *.c) should be splitted.
>
> But it the end, I believe it's mostly a question of the parties
> interested deciding when to upgrade from scipy/numeric to scipy/ 
> numpy in
> Debian. I'm not using scipy at the moment so I don't feel the  
> incentive
> to push this upgrade, however I'll gladly lend a hand (as I'm sure  
> I'll
> use it again in the future).


Thanks for your replies.  Since my original post Andrew Straw has  
announced that he's set up a repository (at http://sefton.astraw.com/ 
ubuntu/dapper) with .deb packages for numpy 0.9.8.  I suggest we look  
over his packages and try to merge the best ideas into the debian  
experimental packages.

I should have some time next week to work on it.  I'll keep you posted.

-- Ed