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- Information for Maintainers of packages depending on python-numpy
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- With Numpy 1.4.1 upload in unstable, we had several packages failing
- to execute due to a change in 'dtype' format (some fields were added
- at the end of the data strucutre).
-
- After that, we decided to provide a reliable way to specify strict
- versioned depends on python-numpy by the packages depending on it, in
- order to avoid similar failures in future uploads.
-
- Currently you have two ways to do that:
-
- * dh_numpy, that will add python-numpy versioned depends (using pydist
- file information, see below) to python:Depends substvar
-
- * dh_python2 and the pydist file shipped by python-numpy,
- /usr/share/python/di st/python-numpy; you can read more out pydist
- files at [1].
-
- [1] http://alioth.debian.org/scm/loggerhead/pkg-python/python-defaults-debian/annotate/head:/README.PyDist
-
- python-support will receive the same support for pydist as of
- dh_python2, but it's not already implemented at the time or
- writing. So, in case you don't want to use dh_python2, use dh_numpy
- helper script.
-
- -- Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:28:11 +0200