[Python-modules-team] Bug#426012: Depends on python-numpy-dev

[Ondrej Certik]

On Dec 1, 2007 7:11 PM, Kumar Appaiah <akumar at ee.iitm.ac.in> wrote:
> severity 426012 normal
> thanks
>
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:19:26PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Package: python-numpy
> > Version: 1:1.0.3-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > currently python-numpy depends on python-numpy-dev. As the latter is not
> > needed unless you want to build numpy extensions, the dependency should
> > be the other way round.
>
> Dear Josselin,
>
> Please have a look at #413160 and tell me if yoru bug is still
> relevant. While I understand that this sort of dependency ordering
> beats logic, the maintainers have decided this for the reasons
> mentioned there.
>
> If you still feel this is a bug, myself and Ondrej will try to figure
> out a way to resolve this and discuss it with the maintainers.
>
> Thanks!

I think it's definitely a bug. Either there should be no
python-numpy-dev package, or
there can be one, but definitely python-numpy shouldn't depend on
python-numpy-dev.

Let's figure out how to fix it.

Ondrej