RFS: numexpr 2.6.2 and pytables 3.4.2

[Antonio Valentino]

Hi Yaroslav,

Il 13/08/2017 21:25, Yaroslav Halchenko ha scritto:
> 
> On Sun, 13 Aug 2017, Antonio Valentino wrote:
> 
>> Dear all,
>> I prepared a new version of the packages for numexpr (2.6.2-1) and
>> pytables (3.4.2-1), both include new upstream releases.
>> The new version of pytables also closes #864395.
> 
> looking at numexpr
> 
> 1. minor (could be fixed later) -- spurious addition to d/changelog
> 
> -    - better version parsing in 0002-numpy-1.12-compatibility.patch.
> +    - better version parsing in 0002-numpy-1.12-compatibility.patch./
>        Fix compatibility with numpy 1.12 (Closes: #852906)
> 
> 2. 
> +  * Drop -dbg package declaration (now debug packages are automatically
> +    generated) 
> 
> I am not sure if -dbgsym is sufficient replacement here of python-dbg specific
> builds of extensions, which e.g. allow to see python stack etc within gdb.  Or
> have I missed some other news?
> 

Looking at the lintian tag description [1] and at the wiki page [2] I
didn't found any specific reference to python-*-dbg packages.
So I just supposed that the new -dbgsym packages are equivalent to the
old ones.
I will look for more details.

[1]
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-control-has-obsolete-dbg-package.html
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/DebugPackage

> 
> building now, if builds works out fine -- will upload this one

thank you


cheers

-- 
Antonio Valentino