[Python-modules-team] Bug#640940: python-numpy: numpy.distutils not multiarch aware

[Jakub Wilk]

notfound 640940 1:1.5.1-2ubuntu2
found 640940 1:1.5.1-2
thanks

* Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com>, 2011-09-08, 19:15:
>>please, try to use Debian versions when reporting bugs against Debian 
>>packages.
>this applies the debian package 1:1.5.1-2. I just reported it from ubuntu.

Let's correct it then.

>>>one could also use gcc -print-multiarch to obtain the triplet instead 
>>>of dpkg-architecture
>>so we have to depends on gcc, sorry no.

Well, depending on gcc sounds better to me that depending on dpkg-dev.

Besides, it doesn't have to be Depends. If anything, Suggests would be 
sufficient. As far as I understand it, the module in question is 
supposed to help building extension modules, so you could assume that 
gcc is installed if someone tries to use it.

You could silently skip adding multiarch paths if gcc is not found (or 
if it doesn't support -print-multiarch), and it would still be better 
than the status quo.

-- 
Jakub Wilk