[Deb-scipy-devel] bringing python-numpy into DPMT

[Ed Schofield]

On Dec 1, 2007 11:16 PM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:
>
> Hi, so the new package was uploaded, but the maintainer is still set
> to deb-scipy.
> However, still a lot of work needs to be done - the numpy vs numpy-dev
> dependency needs to be fixed,
> there should probably be a new package for f2py, the debian/rules is a
> mess, it needs
> to be cleaned up using the standards in the python-modules team, etc.
> Also having the package
> in DPMT has a huge advantage that there are a lot of people in DPMT
> who will help
> maintain the package.
>
> Also, in the future, if it happens that nor I nor you have time to fix
> some important bugs, if the pacakge
> is in DPMT, someone else, like Kumar can just fix it and it will be uploaded.
>
> So please let me know if it's ok and I change the maintainer and
> delete the repository at deb-scipy (the new changes are now in DPMT
> svn repo).

I'm all for this change too. It's good to reduce the barrier to entry
to maintenance as much as possible. Thanks for your help!

-- Ed