Hi, I am a developer of numpy and scipy, and I would be interested in helping numpy/scipy debian packages to be better on both Debian and Ubuntu. As a user of both Debian and Ubuntu, and one of the main developer working on build issues for numpy/scipy, I think I can be useful :)
I looked at the recent debian packaging (current trunk), and I noticed two things which I think are mistakes, or at least seem strange: - build-depends has a depdency on libfftw3-dev. Numpy does not use FFTW at all, and never had to my knowledge, at least from numpy 0.9.8 (almost 3 years ago). - build-conflicts against atlas. I guess this is to avoid explicitely linking against ATLAS - this can be avoided easily without the build-conflicts which is a bit of a pain: ATLAS=None python setup.py build should build numpy (and scipy) without ATLAS, even if atlas is detected. cheers, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org