Robert Kern writes: > Matthias Klose wrote: > > 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? > > numpy is a unitary package, now. You can't remove subpackages and still have a > functional numpy. Look at the __init__.py: > > import linalg > import fft > import random > > The core has the same optional dependency on BLAS as the linalg subpackage for > the numpy.dot() function, and the Debian package python-numpy already has the > dependency on LAPACK and BLAS Debian packages, so folding python-numpy-ext > into > it will not add any more dependencies than already exist.
ok, do the Debian maintainers agree, if I prepare such an upload? > 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. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
