On 3/6/07, Marco Presi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Hi Marco, Here's my suggestion: The numpy package should not depend on numpy-dev; this defeats the purpose of having a separate -dev package, which is to keep the filesystem uncluttered for users who don't need the dev headers. But in this case there are only two meaningful files in the -dev package: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numpy/f2py/src/fortranobject.h /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/numpy/f2py/src/fortranobject.c Since at least the .h file is necessary for the functioning of numpy, these should just be moved to the numpy package and the -dev package should be removed entirely. The usual Debian package / package-dev distinction makes no sense for this package. -- Ed
