[Python-modules-team] Bug#489726: should numpy be built with atlas?

[Matthias Klose]

Ondrej Certik writes:
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Matthias Klose <doko at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > Package: python-numpy
> > Version: 1:1.1.0-2
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > python-numpy now has an unconditional dependency on libatlas3gf-base,
> > needing the "specialized" atlas libraries as a runtime
> > dependency. Users still should have the option to use the standard
> > blas and lapack libs instead of the untested/unmaintained atlas
> > libraries in debian.
> 
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> I changed that on a request from a user:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=489253
> 
> so should we revert this change? I.e. should numpy not be built with
> atlas support? This will make it quite slow in Debian.
> 
> CCing to debian python as well to get more opinions on this.

afaiu this has nothing to do if blas/lapack or atlas are used;
apparently _dotblas.so is not built when just using blas/lapack. this
seems to be the real bug which we should fix.

  Matthias