[Python-modules-team] Bug#466868: python-scipy -- please transition to use gfortran based lapack, blas

[Ondrej Certik]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:
>  > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Kumar Appaiah <akumar at ee.iitm.ac.in> wrote:
>  >  > Package: python-scipy
>  >  >  Version: 0.6.0-5.1
>  >  >  Severity: important
>  >  >  User: debian-toolchain at lists.debian.org
>  >  >  Usertags: gfortran
>  >  >
>  >  >  Hi!
>  >  >
>  >  >  I would request you to please shift Build-Depends to use the new
>  >  >  gfortran based Lapack and Blas packages in order to phase out packages
>  >  >  dependent on the old g2c (g77). In this regard, I would request you to
>  >  >  refer to:
>  >  >
>  >  >  http://wiki.debian.org/GfortranTransition
>  >  >
>  >  >  Thank you.
>  >
>  >  Thanks for the bug report. We just uploaded a new revision, that makes scipy
>  >  installable again with python-numpy. Also, new gfortran based
>  >  suitesparse, which scipy depends on,
>  >  will be uploaded to unstable either today or tomorrow. When it enters unstable,
>  >  we'll rebuild scipy against this new suitesparse and upload a new
>  >  revision of scipy.
>  >
>  >  This should fix this bug.
>
>  Updated and fixed package sits in our svn. Please review, if it's ok,
>  I'll upload tomorrow.
>
>  Pontential problems:
>
>     0.6.0-7:
>
>     FAILED (failures=2)
>     Out[2]: <unittest._TextTestResult run=1728 errors=0 failures=2>

^^ OK, this only happens on amd64.  There are no errors on i386. I
need to check the 0.6.0-8 on i386 too. If it works,
I am for uploading.

Ondrej