[Python-modules-team] Bug#541746: mpmath is bundled

[Ondrej Certik]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Seo
Sanghyeon<tinuviel at sparcs.kaist.ac.kr> wrote:
> Package: python-sympy
> Version: 0.6.4-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> python-sympy bundles mpmath. It should use python-mpmath package instead.
>
> /usr/share/python-support/python-sympy/sympy/mpmath/__init__.py claims
> its version is 0.11, but source code does not match with mpmath 0.11
> release. It seems to be an intermediate version between 0.11 and 0.12.
>
> For example, sympy.mpmath includes Riemann-Siegel Z-function which does
> not exist in mpmath 0.11, while it lacks twin prime constant which is
> included in mpmath 0.12.
>
> Also, the rest of sympy imports mpmath from sympy.mpmath. Rather than
> fixing all imports, maybe symlink to mpmath should be shipped.

Currently this is not possible, as the mpmath api is changing too
often and it would break sympy. However, hopefully it will settle in
the future, so then we can just use mpmath in Debian.

Ondrej