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

[Marco Presi]

 || On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:42:09 +0200
 || Ed Schofield <schofield at ftw.at> wrote: 
	>>> 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).


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

        I will take a look at it, but I am not able to do it before next
        week due to some deadline I have at my work.

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

        Thanks for your effort

        Marco


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