[Python-modules-team] Bug#525329: python-scipy: please build -dbg package with unstripped _d.so

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Package: python-scipy
Version: 0.7.0-1
Severity: wishlist


without -dbg package some external modules which use smth like scipy.special
are doomed not to be easily debuggable with python-dbg due to:

$> python-dbg
Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Feb 18 2009, 03:00:04) 
[GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import scipy
[112325 refs]
*>>> import scipy.special
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scipy/special/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from basic import *
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scipy/special/basic.py", line 8, in <module>
    from _cephes import *
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/scipy/special/_cephes.so: undefined symbol: Py_InitModule4_64


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages python-scipy depends on:
ii  libatlas3gf-base [liblapack. 3.6.0-24    Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
ii  libblas3gf [libblas.so.3gf]  1.2-2       Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  libc6                        2.9-4       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                      1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii  libgfortran3                 4.3.2-1.1   Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
ii  liblapack3gf [liblapack.so.3 3.1.1-1     library of linear algebra routines
ii  libstdc++6                   4.3.2-1.1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsuitesparse-3.2.0         1:3.2.0-4   collection of libraries for comput
ii  python                       2.5.4-2     An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central               0.6.11      register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python-numpy                 1:1.2.1-1   Numerical Python adds a fast array

Versions of packages python-scipy recommends:
ii  g++ [c++-compiler]            4:4.3.2-2  The GNU C++ compiler
ii  g++-4.2 [c++-compiler]        4.2.4-6    The GNU C++ compiler
ii  g++-4.3 [c++-compiler]        4.3.2-1.1  The GNU C++ compiler

Versions of packages python-scipy suggests:
ii  python-profiler               2.5.2-1    deterministic profiling of any Pyt

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