On Dec 5, 2007 1:03 PM, José Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/5/07, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > we with Kumar made a progress and had python-numpy uploaded (thanks Fabio). > > > > It builds nicely in pbuilder, but fails to build on buildbots. See: > > > > http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=python-numpy > > > > Fabio uploaded it on amd64, so that one is fine. > > > > Crucial are the following lines from debian/control: > > > > Build-Depends: cdbs (>= 0.4.43), python-all-dev, python-all-dbg, > > python-central (>= 0.5.6), refblas3-dev [!arm !m68k], lapack3-dev > > [!arm !m68k], debhelper (>= 5.0.38), g77, patchutils, python-docutils, > > fftw3-dev > > Build-Conflicts: lapack-dev [!arm !m68k], blas-dev [!arm !m68k], > > atlas2-base, atlas2-base-dev, atlas3-base, atlas3-base-dev > > > > As you can see, arm and m68k are exceptions and indeed python-numpy > > builds on them just fine (see the link above). (It's still building on > > m68k, but last revision built there fine). It > > doesn't build on other architectures. If we look for example why it > > failed on the most important architecture i386: > > > > [...] > > > > So as you can see, the problem is that buildbots install atlas3-base > > for some reason and because we build-conflict with it, we fail. > > > > Three questions: > > > > 1. Why is there the build-conflict in the first place? This is the > > question to original maintainers (Marco, Alexandre, Jose, Matthias) > > I added the build-conflict because without it, dpkg-shlibdeps would > make them depend exclusively on blas and lapack, instead of depending > on the virtual package (because all other packages provide blas and > lapack) > > So instead of getting the desired: > > Depends: atlas3-base | lapack3 | liblapack.so.3, atlas3-base | > refblas3 | libblas.so.3, ... > > dpkg-shlibdeps would produce: > > Depends: atlas2-base > > Or > > Depends: atlas3-base > >
I tried that - i.e. installed atlas3-base on my system, commented out build-conflicts, built python-numpy and got these dependencies: Depends: atlas3-base | lapack3 | liblapack.so.3, atlas3-base | refblas3 | libblas.so.3, ... which is imho correct, right? We are going to upload now. Ondrej
