Hi David! On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:10 PM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 am really glad you are interested in the packaging. Welcome! :) Do you know how to build it from our svn? If not, feel free to ask. Since python-sphinx 0.5 is in unstable now, do you think we should build with the docs as they are in the debian packaging svn? I simply used numpy svn and copied the doc directory into the tarball, see the debian/rules. > 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). I think it could probably be just removed, unless someone objects. > - 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. Thanks for the tip --- I think there was some reason for this conflict, but I can't remember now. Let's wait a bit what other think here. Ondrej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
