On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, Julien Cristau wrote: > > While building a squeeze backport of new release of python-brian package > > I just found out that there is a g++ 4.4 compatibility issue with weave > > of scipy shipped in squeeze. Fix is trivial -- I adopted it from a > > package in Ubuntu (links are in the patch). I tested that it > > resolves my brian build failures. See attached the debdiff for a > > proposed upload. Would it be acceptable? Thank you in advance
> Does that affect any package in squeeze? not AFAIK (I cannot know for sure since many packages lack build-time unittesting so even if package uses affected inline weave'ing I would not know). otherwise we would have spotted it by now ;) > If not then I don't think this > is required, as it can easily enough be worked around in users? not sure if easily since the majority of magic is hidden away from "users", e.g. actual code would look like: (Pdb) print code int numspikes=0; for(int i=0;i<N;i++) if(V(i)>Vt) spikes(numspikes++) = i; return_val = numspikes; and then bug shows itself up via using blitz "typeconverter" which shipped with scipy aren't g++ 4.4 compatible. may be there is a 'user-level' workaround but I am not aware of it... anyone? Altogether acceptance of the patch would not fix any FTBFS in the stable archive but should make few scipy users of 'stable' happier. Due to minimalistic patch, I do not think that it should have negative side-effects. -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120831191911.gv2...@onerussian.com