[Deb-scipy-devel] Bug#389118: python-numpy: will not import unless python-numpy-ext is installed

[Matthias Klose]

Robert Kern writes:
> Thank you. As an upstream numpy developer, I can verify that the contents of 
> python-numpy-ext cannot be separated from python-numpy.

I assume the separation of the base package and the extension packages
comes from the Numeric and numarray packages in debian. The extension
did make sense to avoid the installation of the blas and lapack
libraries; basic functionality can be used without having these
libraries be installed.  In which ways did numpy change, so that this
is not possible anymore?

  Matthias