[ Summary: pysparse fails to build from source because python-numeric doesn't include /usr/include/python2.5/Numeric/arrayobject.h (python-numeric only has files for python 2.3 and 2.4, not 2.5). ]
On 14/05/07 at 14:34 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > Have you tried rebuilding python-numeric with python 2.5, then building > > > pysparse? I notice that python-numeric does not appear in > > > http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2007/05/13/ , nor in any other > > > subdir of http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2007/ , so it seems not. > > > > if it's not here, it just means that it never failed. > > How do we know it was ever tried? if it's in main and is supposed to build on i386, it was tried. but anyway, I use the packages from the archive, not the ones I built, to build the other ones. So even if python-numeric was rebuilt, the verison in the archive would be used to build pysparse. > > > I see. This is a problem with the new python build system: it's hard to > > > tell which packages have been built with which version of python. > > > There's no reason for me to change my python-numeric dependency, but no > > > way for any build system to tell whether the same python-numeric package > > > has been built for the new python. > > > > > > Reclassifying this as normal. If you can show that you built its python > > > dependencies with 2.5, and then this failed, then I will agree that it > > > is a bug in pysparse. > > > > I'm not really a python expert. :-) But why did your package suddenly > > start to build python 2.5 files as well ? > > When you try to build a python package, it attempts to build all of the > current default versions. Last Fall when I first uploaded pysparse, it > automatically built and installed headers, .pyc files, etc. for python > 2.3 and 2.4. > > Now there is python 2.5, so when you try to build pysparse again, it > tries to build python 2.5 files. > > But python-numeric was built before python 2.5, so it only built > headers, pyc etc for 2.3 and 2.4 (maybe not even 2.3, I'm not sure). So > in order to have python-numeric headers for python 2.5, you need to > rebuild that package now with python 2.5. > > Otherwise, when rebuilding pysparse, it will try to build 2.5, and look > for python-numeric 2.5 header files, but they won't be there! > > So please try building python-numeric, install the newly-built version, > then try building pysparse. > > As I mentioned, this is a general problem with python upgrades using the > new python build system (introduced about a year ago IIRC). After a new > python version enters the defaults list, attempting to rebuild an > arbitrary python package is likely to fail, unless all of its > dependencies have been rebuilt and uploaded first. > > Please verify that it builds as I described above (when you rebuild and > install python-numeric first), then we can close this bug. After discussing that with Pierre Habouzit, it seems that binNMUs are needed for all python-* packages which are arch:any, support python 2.5, and include files in /usr/lib/python?.?. (at least python-numeric needs this binNMU) But I would prefer if someone more knowledgeable that me on python stuff could confirm :-) -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
