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

[Robert Kern]

Matthias Klose wrote:
> Robert Kern writes:

>> Also, for f2py to be functional, the two files in python-numpy-dev also need to
>> be present. It would save everyone some grief if those files were in
>> python-numpy itself. At the very least, python-numpy-dev should be in the
>> Recommends of python-numpy, and the errors one gets when trying to use f2py
>> without it should be documented in python-numpy's README.Debian such that users
>> know what is going on.
> 
> Or put f2py into the -dev package? Debian has the distinction between
> runtime and development packages; to make the package work out of the
> box, you would have to depend on compilers as well, which is not
> desired when you install the package just as a dependency of another
> package. Maybe another option could be a renaming of python-numpy to
> python-numpy-runtime and python-numpy-dev to python-numpy, so that you
> get what upstream wants you to get.

If you want to move the f2py script (though not the numpy.f2py subpackage) to
another Debian package, I have no objection. However, the fortranobject.[ch]
files are package data, and IMO should stay with the numpy.f2py subpackage; I
don't see how anyone benefits by removing them.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
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