[Deb-scipy-devel] Bug#413160: python-numpy: Dependency hell

[Marco Presi]

Hi,

Thanks for reporting the bug.

About the circular deps, I am going to make a new upload to fix it.

Regarding the point to have numpy to depend on numpy-dev: we didn't find
a simple solution to avoid this.

numpy-dev contains some headers and dev stuff that is needed by f2py.
Now, f2py (that comes with python-numpy), needs those haeders (so we
need to have numpy-dev as a dependency of numpy). On the other hand if
we would include the contents of numpy-dev inside numpy.. we would ship
some devel stuff inside a package that shoudn't contain it..

In previous releases, I set numpy-dev as reccomended by numpy. But after
a bug opened against this solution, we eventually decided to add this
dependency.

..if you have suggestions, you are more than welcome.

Regards

Marco